Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 49
Not only did Prince Ivan lift the sword, but he tossed it high in the air.
Who acts: Prince Ivan, Ivan · What happens: not lift, toss · To what, where: sword, weight
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), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 lift | advmod |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 Ivan | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Ivan | aux |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Ivan | compound |
| 5 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lift | nsubj |
| 6 | lift | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lift | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tossed | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tossed | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tossed | nsubj |
| 12 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lift | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tossed | obj |
| 14 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tossed | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 air | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 high | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lift | present | Prince Ivan | the sword | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | toss | past | Ivan | weight | high property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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