Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 92
Prince Ivan puts her in her own mortar, and proceeds to pound her therein, until she tells him where the fragments of his comrade are, and what he must do to restore them to life.
Who acts: Prince Ivan, horse, fragments, Ivan · What happens: put, proceed, tell, be, do, restore · To what, where: horse, own mortar, pound, Ivan, fragments, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Ivan, horse, fragments, Ivan), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | compound |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 puts | nsubj |
| 3 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 puts | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mortar | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mortar | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 mortar | amod |
| 8 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 puts | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 proceeds | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 proceeds | cc |
| 11 | proceeds | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 puts | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pound | mark |
| 13 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proceeds | obj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 pound | acl:relcl |
| 15 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 11 proceeds | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tells | punct |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 tells | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tells | nsubj |
| 19 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 proceeds | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tells | iobj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 27 are | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fragments | det |
| 23 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 are | nsubj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 comrade | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 26 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fragments | nmod |
| 27 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 tells | ccomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 do | cc |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 33 do | obj |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 do | nsubj |
| 32 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 do | aux |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 puts | parataxis |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 restore | mark |
| 35 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 do | advcl |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 restore | obj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 life | case |
| 38 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 restore | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 puts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | Prince Ivan | horse | horse's own mortar | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in mortar=Destination | |||
| 2 | proceed | present | pound | therein property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | horse | Ivan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | does | present | the fragments of Ivan's comrade | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | do | must | Ivan | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | restore | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | fragments = fragment | life | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Recipient |
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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