Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 7
They all mourned and wept together, but they decided that there was no help for it, the Prince must be given up.
Who acts: Queen, help · What happens: mourn, weep, decide, be, give up · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Queen, help), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mourned | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 mourned | advmod |
| 3 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wept | cc |
| 5 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mourned | conj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 wept | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 decided | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 decided | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 decided | nsubj |
| 10 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mourned | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 was | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 decided | ccomp |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 help | det |
| 15 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 help | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 given | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 given | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 given | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 given | aux:pass |
| 23 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 decided | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 given | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | Queen | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | Queen not said here | together property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | decide | past | Queen | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | past | no help for grief | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give up | must · passive | the Prince | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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