Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 77
Prince Ivan ran off to his father and, for the first time in his life, began speaking to him.
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: run off, begin, speak · To what, where: Ivan · 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 Ivan), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | compound |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ran | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 time | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 father | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 time | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 19 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 began | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 speaking | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | Prince Ivan | to Ivan's father and the first time in Ivan's life result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to father=Result | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Prince Ivan not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | Prince Ivan not said here | Ivan | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent |
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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