Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 9
The Prince looked around, saw a footpath, and followed trusting God would lead him somewhere.
Who acts: Prince, God · What happens: look around, see, follow, trust, lead · To what, where: footpath, Prince
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, God), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 footpath | det |
| 8 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 followed | cc |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 12 | trusting | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 followed | xcomp |
| 13 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lead | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lead | aux |
| 15 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trusting | ccomp |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lead | obj |
| 17 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 lead | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | the Prince | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Prince not said here | a footpath | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer footpath=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | the Prince not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | trust | gerund | the Prince not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lead | would | God | Prince | somewhere property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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