Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 149
When the King saw that, he became exceedingly sorrowful, and began to weep and therewithal to say:
Who acts: King · What happens: see, become, begin, weep, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 became | nsubj |
| 8 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 10 sorrowful | advmod |
| 10 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 became | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 became | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 weep | mark |
| 15 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 therewithal | cc |
| 17 | therewithal | therewithal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 weep | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 say | mark |
| 19 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 therewithal | xcomp |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the King | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | become | past | King | sorrowful property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | King not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | weep | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | King not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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