Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 40

Prince Ivan went into the house, and the maiden received him kindly, gave him to eat and to drink, and then began to question him.

Who acts: Prince Ivan, maiden · What happens: go, receive, give, eat, drink, begin · To what, where: house, Ivan

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, maiden), 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	into	into	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 house	det
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 received	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 received	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 maiden	det
10	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 received	nsubj
11	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 received	obj
13	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	11 received	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 gave	iobj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 eat	mark
18	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 gave	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 drink	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 drink	mark
21	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 eat	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 began	advmod
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 question	mark
27	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 began	xcomp
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 question	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Prince Ivan			the house			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
2	receive	past	the maiden	Ivan				kindly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	give	past	Prince Ivan not said here		Ivan				tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive	Prince Ivan not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	drink	to-infinitive	Prince Ivan not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	begin	past	Prince Ivan not said here				then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	question speech: other	to-infinitive	Prince Ivan not said here		Ivan				vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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