Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 68
The time came--Prince Ivan received his mother's blessing, and went to look for Koshchei's death.
Who acts: time, Prince Ivan, mother, Koshchei · What happens: come, receive, go, look, bless, die · To what, where: blessing
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 (time, Prince Ivan, mother, Koshchei), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 received | punct |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ivan | compound |
| 6 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 received | nsubj |
| 7 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 11 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 received | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 death | case |
| 18 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 death | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 Koshchei | case |
| 20 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 look | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | receive | past | Prince Ivan | Ivan's mother's blessing | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the time not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | the time not said here | for Koshchei's death | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for death=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bless | Ivan's mother | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | die | Koshchei | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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