Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 128
The Prince and Vasilissa rode on, and at length they drew nigh to the home of the Prince's parents.
Who acts: Prince, walls · What happens: ride on, draw · To what, where: length
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 (Prince, walls), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Vasilissa | cc |
| 4 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Prince | conj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 rode | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drew | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 drew | nsubj |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rode | conj |
| 13 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 12 drew | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 home | det |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 parents | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 parents | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Prince | case |
| 21 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 home | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride on | past | the Prince and Vasilissa | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | draw | past | walls = wall | length | to the home of the Prince's parents; nigh property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to home=Destination |
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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