Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 91
More bitterly still did the prince weep as he rode farther and farther on.
Who acts: Ivan · What happens: do, ride · To what, where: prince weep
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 | More | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 bitterly | advmod |
| 2 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 weep | det |
| 6 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 weep | compound |
| 7 | weep | weep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 rode | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rode | nsubj |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 11 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 on | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 on | cc |
| 13 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 on | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 rode | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the prince weep | still | bitterly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weep=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ride | past | Ivan | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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