Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 2
Prince Ivan went to choose a steed, but every one that he laid his hand upon gave way under it.
Who acts: Prince Ivan, Ivan, one · What happens: go, choose, lay upon, give · To what, where: steed, one, way
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, 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | compound |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 choose | mark |
| 5 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 steed | det |
| 7 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 choose | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 10 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 laid | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 laid | nsubj |
| 14 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 laid | obj |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 laid | compound:prt |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince Ivan | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | choose | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan not said here | a steed | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lay upon | past | Ivan | every one | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent that=Theme hand=Destination | ||||
| 4 | give | past | every one | way | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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