Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 28
So the Prince gave her back her shift, and she immediately turned into a spoonbill and flew away after her companions.
Who acts: Prince, eleven · What happens: give back, turn, fly away, shift · To what, where: shift, eleven, spoonbill
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, eleven), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | iobj |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 shift | nmod:poss |
| 8 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advmod |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 spoonbill | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 spoonbill | det |
| 16 | spoonbill | spoonbill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flew | cc |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 flew | advmod |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 companions | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 companions | nmod:poss |
| 22 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | past | the Prince | eleven's shift | eleven | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient shift=Theme | |||
| 2 | turn | past | eleven | a spoonbill | immediately property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into spoonbill=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | fly away | past | eleven not said here | after eleven's companions | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | shift | eleven | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/27/28/