Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 103
He often went to the top of a high mountain, and thence gazed at the palace in which he used to live, and he could see that it was all eaten away; nothing but the bare walls remained!
Who acts: prince · What happens: go, gaze, use, live, see, eat away · To what, where: nothing, top, palace, bare walls · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 top | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 top | det |
| 6 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 mountain | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 mountain | det |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mountain | amod |
| 10 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 top | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gazed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gazed | cc |
| 13 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 14 gazed | advmod |
| 14 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gazed | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 used | obl |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 used | nsubj |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 palace | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 live | mark |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 used | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 see | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 gazed | conj |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 eaten | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 eaten | aux:pass |
| 32 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 eaten | advmod |
| 33 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 see | ccomp |
| 34 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 eaten | advmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 nothing | punct |
| 36 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 went | obl |
| 37 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 walls | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 walls | det |
| 39 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 walls | amod |
| 40 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 nothing | conj |
| 41 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 walls | acl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | prince | nothing | the top of a high mountain | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | gaze | participle | prince not said here | at the palace; thence property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at palace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | past | prince | the palace | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | prince not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | could | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | eat away | past · passive | palace | all, away property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 7 | remain | participle | the bare walls not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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