Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 77
Prince Ivan thought the matter over and spared the crow.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: think over, spare · To what, where: matter, crow
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), 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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spared | cc |
| 8 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crow | det |
| 10 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spared | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think over speech: other | past | Prince | the matter | over property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot matter=Theme | |||
| 2 | spare | past | Prince not said here | the crow | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent crow=Asset |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/24/77/