Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 133
The Prince sat down and strummed away on the lute [_gusli_].
Who acts: Prince · What happens: sit down, strum away · To what, where: lute
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 strummed | cc |
| 6 | strummed | strum | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sat | conj |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 strummed | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 lute | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lute | det |
| 10 | lute | lute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strummed | obl |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 gusli | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 gusli | punct |
| 13 | gusli | gusli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lute | appos |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 gusli | punct |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 gusli | punct |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the Prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | strum away | participle | the Prince not said here | the lute | away property | tree rules |
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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