Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 29
Prince Ivan dismounted, let some drops of blood run from his little finger into a glass, gave it to his brothers, and said:
Who acts: Prince, drops · What happens: dismount, let, run, give, say · To what, where: little finger, glass, brothers · 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 (Prince, drops), 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 | 3 dismounted | nsubj |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dismounted | ccomp |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 drops | det |
| 7 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 run | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 blood | case |
| 9 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drops | nmod |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 finger | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 finger | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 finger | amod |
| 14 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 run | obl |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 glass | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 glass | det |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 run | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 brothers | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 gave | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 said | cc |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dismounted | parataxis |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Prince not said here | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run | present | some drops of blood | Prince's little finger | into a glass result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into glass=Result | |||
| 4 | give | past | Prince not said here | glass | Prince's brothers | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to brother=Recipient | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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