Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 127
By-and-by Prince Ivan reached the old women, and gave each of them an apple.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: reach, give · To what, where: old women, each
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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 reached | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | flat |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 women | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 women | amod |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reached | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reached | conj |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 each | nmod |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 apple | det |
| 19 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Prince | the old women | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | Prince not said here | each | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Recipient apple=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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