Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 89
Prince Ivan was terribly frightened at having let the hare escape, and gave himself up to gloomy thoughts; but a wolf, the one he had refrained from killing, rushed after the hare, caught it, and brought it to Prince Ivan.
Who acts: hare, wolf · What happens: frighten, have, let, escape, give up, refrain · To what, where: Prince Ivan, hare, gloomy thoughts, one, killing
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 (hare, wolf), 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 | 5 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | aux:pass |
| 4 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 5 frightened | advmod |
| 5 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 having | mark |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 frightened | advcl |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 having | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hare | det |
| 10 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | obj |
| 11 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 gave | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 thoughts | case |
| 18 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thoughts | amod |
| 19 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 caught | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 caught | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 wolf | det |
| 23 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 caught | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 one | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wolf | appos |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 refrained | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 refrained | aux |
| 29 | refrained | refrain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 one | acl:relcl |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 killing | case |
| 31 | killing | killing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 refrained | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rushed | punct |
| 33 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 refrained | conj |
| 34 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 hare | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hare | det |
| 36 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rushed | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wolf | punct |
| 38 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 frightened | parataxis |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 caught | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 brought | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 brought | cc |
| 42 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 caught | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 brought | obj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 Ivan | case |
| 45 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 Ivan | compound |
| 46 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 brought | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | Prince Ivan | terribly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | the hare | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | escape | infinitive | the hare not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give up | past | hare | gloomy thoughts | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to thought=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | refrain | past · perfect | hare | the one not said here | killing | tree rules | |||
| 7 | rush | participle | hare not said here | after the hare | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | catch | past | a wolf | killing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 9 | bring | past | a wolf not said here | killing | Prince Ivan | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ivan=Destination |
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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