Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 105
Once when he returned after he had been thus looking and crying, the Sun's Sister asked him:
Who acts: prince, Sister · What happens: return, look, cry, ask · To what, where: prince
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, Sister), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 looking | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 looking | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looking | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 looking | aux |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 looking | advmod |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 crying | cc |
| 12 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 looking | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sun | det |
| 15 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Sister | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 Sun | case |
| 17 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | iobj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | prince | once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past · perfect · progressive | prince | thus property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | prince not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sun's Sister | prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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