Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 124
"Why did not ye seize them?" cried the Water King louder than before, and having put the pursuers to a cruel death, he galloped off himself in pursuit of the Prince and Vasilissa the Wise.
Who acts: ye, Water King, King · What happens: not seize, cry, put, gallop off, pursue · To what, where: pursuers, King, pursuit, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Water King, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 seize | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 seize | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seize | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 seize | advmod |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 seize | nsubj |
| 6 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seize | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 seize | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 seize | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 12 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 King | compound |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 14 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 cried | xcomp |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 before | case |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 louder | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 19 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 put | aux |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 cried | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pursuers | det |
| 22 | pursuers | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 put | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 death | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 death | det |
| 25 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 death | amod |
| 26 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 galloped | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 galloped | nsubj |
| 29 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 galloped | compound:prt |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 galloped | obl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 pursuit | case |
| 33 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 galloped | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Prince | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Prince | det |
| 36 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 pursuit | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 Vasilissa | cc |
| 38 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Prince | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Wise | det |
| 40 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Vasilissa | appos |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seize in a quote | past · do-support | ye | pursuers = pursuer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the Water King | loud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | put | gerund | the Water King not said here | the pursuers | to a cruel death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pursuer=Goal | |||
| 4 | gallop off | past | King | King | pursuit of the Prince and Vasilissa | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | pursue | the Prince and Vasilissa | nom pursuit «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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