Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 21
The Prince stole the eldest one's shift, and sat down behind a bush--didn't budge an inch.
Who acts: Prince, eldest one · What happens: steal, sit down, not budge, shift · To what, where: shift, bush, inch
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, eldest one), 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 stole | nsubj |
| 3 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shift | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 one | case |
| 8 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stole | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sat | cc |
| 11 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stole | parataxis |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 sat | compound:prt |
| 13 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 15 bush | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bush | det |
| 15 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sat | obl |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 budge | punct |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 budge | aux |
| 18 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 budge | advmod |
| 19 | budge | budge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sat | conj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 inch | det |
| 21 | inch | inch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 budge | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | the Prince | the eldest one's shift | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | a bush | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind bush=Location | |||||
| 3 | not budge | past · do-support | a inch | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shift | the eldest one | nom shift «event 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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