Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 37
The Prince went away from the Water King, and burst into a flood of tears.
Who acts: Prince, tears · What happens: go away, burst, flood · To what, where: flood
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, tears), 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 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 King | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 7 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | compound |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 burst | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 burst | cc |
| 11 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 flood | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 flood | det |
| 14 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burst | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tears | case |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flood | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the Prince | from the Water King; away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | burst | past | the Prince not said here | a flood of tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flood | tears | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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