Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 133
The Prince reached home, began saluting every one, kissed his sister too--and no sooner had he kissed her than from that very moment he forgot all about his wife, just as if she had never entered into his mind.
Who acts: Prince, wife · What happens: reach, begin, salute, kiss, forget, not enter · To what, where: one, sister, fly, wife, mind
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, wife), 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 | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 7 | saluting | salute | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 began | xcomp |
| 8 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saluting | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kissed | punct |
| 11 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | parataxis |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sister | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kissed | iobj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 kissed | advmod |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 21 kissed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kissed | cc |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 sooner | det |
| 18 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 kissed | advmod |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kissed | aux |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kissed | nsubj |
| 21 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | parataxis |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kissed | obj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 moment | case |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 moment | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 moment | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 moment | advmod |
| 27 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kissed | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 forgot | nsubj |
| 29 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 moment | acl:relcl |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 wife | advmod |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 33 wife | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wife | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 forgot | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 entered | punct |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 41 entered | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 entered | mark |
| 37 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 entered | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 entered | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 entered | aux |
| 40 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 41 entered | advmod |
| 41 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 kissed | conj |
| 42 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 mind | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 mind | nmod:poss |
| 44 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 entered | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the Prince | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Prince not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | salute | gerund | the Prince not said here | every one | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 4 | kiss | past | Prince's sister | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | kiss | past | Prince | fly | moment | soon property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||
| 6 | forget | past | Prince | Prince's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | not enter a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | wife | Prince's mind | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | mind | Prince | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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