Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 13
Prince Ivan gets hold of the egg and shifts it from one hand to the other.
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: get, shift, hold · To what, where: hold, egg, one hand
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. 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), 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 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 egg | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 egg | det |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hold | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shifts | cc |
| 9 | shifts | shift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shifts | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hand | nummod |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shifts | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 shifts | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Prince Ivan | hold of the egg | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shift | present | Prince Ivan not said here | egg | one hand | to the other result | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Patient it=Extent from hand=Initial_State to other=Result | ||
| 3 | hold | the egg | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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