Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 96
But when he came to the sea, he began washing the egg, and let it drop into the water.
Who acts: Prince, egg · What happens: come, begin, wash, let, drop · To what, where: sea, egg, water
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, egg), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 began | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 began | nsubj |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | washing | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 began | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 egg | det |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 washing | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 let | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 let | cc |
| 16 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 began | parataxis |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 let | obj |
| 18 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 let | xcomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drop | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Prince | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Prince | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | wash | gerund | Prince not said here | the egg | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | egg | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | drop | infinitive | egg not said here | the water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into water=Trajectory |
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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