Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 29
The Prince went further on; there met him by the way three heroes--Obedalo, Opivalo, and Moroz Treskum; he took them with him and went on to the Water King's.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: go, meet, take, go on · To what, where: Moroz, Prince, Obedalo
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 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | further | further | ADV | _ | 5 on | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 met | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 met | expl |
| 8 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 met | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 way | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 met | obl |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 heroes | nummod |
| 14 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 way | conj |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Obedalo | punct |
| 16 | Obedalo | Obedalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 way | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Opivalo | punct |
| 18 | Opivalo | Opivalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Obedalo | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Moroz | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 Moroz | cc |
| 21 | Moroz | Moroz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 22 | Treskum | Treskum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Moroz | flat |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 went | cc |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 took | conj |
| 31 | on | on | ADV | _ | 30 went | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 King | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 King | det |
| 34 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 King | compound |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 went | obl |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 King | case |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Prince | Moroz | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | the Prince not said here | Prince | there | by the way and three heroes | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | take | past | Prince | Obedalo | with Moroz | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | go on | past | Prince not said here | to the Water King | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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