Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 19
Prince Ivan dug it up and saw an iron plate with twelve padlocks on it.
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: dig up, see · To what, where: piece, iron plate
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 (Prince Ivan), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | compound |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dug | nsubj |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dug | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 dug | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 plate | det |
| 9 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 plate | amod |
| 10 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 padlocks | case |
| 12 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 padlocks | nummod |
| 13 | padlocks | padlock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 saw | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig up | past | Prince Ivan | piece | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Prince Ivan not said here | a iron plate | piece | with twelve padlocks | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plate=Stimulus |
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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