Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 148
Vertodub guessed that the Prince was trying to escape from his sister.
Who acts: Vertodub, Prince · What happens: guess, try, escape
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 (Vertodub, 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 | Vertodub | Vertodub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 guessed | nsubj |
| 2 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 trying | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Prince | det |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 trying | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 trying | aux |
| 7 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 guessed | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 escape | mark |
| 9 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trying | xcomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 sister | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 escape | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 guessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | Vertodub | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | try | past · progressive | the Prince | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Prince not said here | from prince's sister | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sister=Initial_Location |
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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