Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 168
And he began kissing the child, caressing it, and at the same time bursting into such floods of tears!
Who acts: King, same time, tears · What happens: begin, kiss, caress, burst, flood · To what, where: child, such floods
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, same time, tears), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 began | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | kissing | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kissing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 caressing | punct |
| 8 | caressing | caress | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 kissing | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caressing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 time | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 time | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 time | amod |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 began | obl |
| 16 | bursting | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 time | acl |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 floods | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 floods | amod |
| 19 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bursting | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tears | case |
| 21 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 floods | nmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | King | time | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | kiss | gerund | King not said here | the child | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | caress | gerund | King not said here | child | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | burst | gerund | the same time not said here | such floods of tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | flood | tears | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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