Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 181
But when he saw that his bride and Prince Ivan were being escorted home together, he turned back again ignominiously.
Who acts: God · What happens: see, escort, turn back · To what, where: bride · 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 (God), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 escorted | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 bride | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 escorted | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Ivan | cc |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Ivan | compound |
| 10 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bride | conj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 escorted | aux:pass |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 escorted | aux:pass |
| 13 | escorted | escort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 escorted | advmod |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 escorted | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turned | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 turned | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 turned | advmod |
| 21 | ignominiously | ignominiously | ADV | _ | 18 turned | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | escort | past · passive | God's bride and Prince Ivan | home, together property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn back | past | God | again | ignominiously property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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