Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 65
The Prince immediately snatched up a broom, and was off to the garden.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: snatch up, be · To what, where: broom
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 | 4 snatched | nsubj |
| 3 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 snatched | advmod |
| 4 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 snatched | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 broom | det |
| 7 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snatched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 garden | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 garden | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 garden | cop |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 was | compound:prt |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snatched | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch up | past | the Prince | a broom | immediately property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broom=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | to the garden | tree rules |
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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