Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 19
The Prince bid the Yaga farewell, went to the appointed spot on the sea-shore, and hid behind the bushes.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: bid, go, appoint, hide · To what, where: Yaga farewell, sea shore, bushes
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), 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 bid | nsubj |
| 3 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 farewell | det |
| 5 | Yaga | Yaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 farewell | compound |
| 6 | farewell | farewell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bid | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bid | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 spot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 11 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 spot | amod |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 shore | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shore | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shore | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sea | punct |
| 17 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hid | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hid | cc |
| 20 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bid | conj |
| 21 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 bushes | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bushes | det |
| 23 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hid | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid | past | the Prince | the Yaga farewell | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Prince not said here | the sea shore | to the appointed spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | hide | past | the Prince not said here | the bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind bush=Location |
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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