Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 49
Up jumped the Prince, seized a broom, took his place on the bridge, and began sweeping here, clearing up there.
What happens: jump, seize, take, begin, sweep, clear up · To what, where: Prince, broom, place, bridge
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: 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 2 jumped | advmod |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 broom | det |
| 8 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 place | nmod:poss |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 bridge | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bridge | det |
| 15 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 19 | sweeping | sweep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 began | xcomp |
| 20 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 sweeping | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 clearing | punct |
| 22 | clearing | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 sweeping | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADV | _ | 24 there | advmod |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 clearing | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | the Prince | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seize | past | a broom | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broom=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Prince's place | the bridge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on bridge=Destination | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | sweep | gerund | here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | clear up | gerund | there | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source |
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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