Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 138
Her three sons went to look for her, and two of them found her and came back, but the third, Prince Ivan, has disappeared, and no one knows where he is.
Who acts: three sons, two, Prince Ivan, one, Ivan · What happens: go, look, find, come back, disappear, know · To what, where: queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three sons, two, Prince Ivan, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 sons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sons | nummod |
| 3 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 found | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 two | nmod |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 came | cc |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | conj |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 third | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 third | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 third | det |
| 22 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 went | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ivan | punct |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ivan | compound |
| 25 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 disappeared | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Ivan | punct |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 disappeared | aux |
| 28 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 third | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 knows | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 knows | cc |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 one | det |
| 32 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 knows | nsubj |
| 33 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 is | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 is | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 knows | ccomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | queen's three sons | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | queen's three sons not said here | for queen | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | two of brothers | queen | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 4 | come back | past | two of brothers not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | disappear | present · perfect | Prince Ivan | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | know | present | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | be | present | Ivan | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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