Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 78
At that the king was so delighted that he never thought of asking what he wanted a good steed for, but immediately ordered the very best horse he had in his stud to be saddled for the prince.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: be, not think, ask, want, order, have · To what, where: good steed, best horse, stud · 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 king | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 At | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delighted | obl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 delighted | advmod |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 thought | advmod |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 asking | mark |
| 13 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | advcl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 wanted | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wanted | nsubj |
| 16 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asking | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 steed | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 steed | amod |
| 19 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wanted | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 steed | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ordered | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 ordered | cc |
| 23 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 24 ordered | advmod |
| 24 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 horse | det |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 best | advmod |
| 27 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 horse | amod |
| 28 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ordered | obj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 had | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ordered | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 stud | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 stud | nmod:poss |
| 33 | stud | stud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 had | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 saddled | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 saddled | aux:pass |
| 36 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 stud | acl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 prince | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 prince | det |
| 39 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 saddled | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | at the king; delighted property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past | Ivan | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Ivan not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | want | past | Ivan | a good steed | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme steed=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | order | past | the best horse | immediately property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | Ivan | Ivan's stud | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | saddle | to-infinitive · passive | Ivan not said here | for the prince | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» |
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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