Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 86
Prince Ivan walked along her back, as if he were going over a bridge, and came to the oak where Koshchei's death was.
Who acts: Prince Ivan, Ivan, death, Koshchei · What happens: walk back, go, come, be, die · To what, where: bridge, oak
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, death, 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | compound |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | obl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walked | advcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 bridge | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bridge | det |
| 15 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 came | cc |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 oak | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 oak | det |
| 21 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 oak | acl |
| 23 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 death | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Koshchei | case |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 where | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 where | cop |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk back | past | Prince Ivan | along hole | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along she=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | Ivan | a bridge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Prince Ivan not said here | the oak | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to oak=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Koshchei's death | the oak not said here | where property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | 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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