Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 149
The old woman was dreadfully frightened; she ran home, and told Prince Ivan to set to work at the ring.
Who acts: woman · What happens: frighten, run, tell, set, work · To what, where: old woman, Prince Ivan · 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 (woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | aux:pass |
| 5 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 6 frightened | advmod |
| 6 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | conj |
| 10 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 ran | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 frightened | conj |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ivan | compound |
| 15 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 told | iobj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 set | mark |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 work | mark |
| 19 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 set | xcomp |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 ring | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ring | det |
| 22 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 work | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | the old woman | dreadfully property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | run | past | woman | home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Prince Ivan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent ivan=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | set not said to happen | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | work | to-infinitive | at the ring | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ring=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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