Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 96
Prince Ivan burst into a flood of bitter tears, and rode on still farther.
Who acts: Prince Ivan, bitter tears · What happens: burst, flood · To what, where: rode, flood
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, bitter tears), 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 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 flood | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 flood | det |
| 6 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burst | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 tears | case |
| 8 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tears | amod |
| 9 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flood | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rode | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rode | cc |
| 12 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 burst | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 farther | case |
| 14 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 farther | advmod |
| 15 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 burst | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | past | Prince Ivan | rode | a flood of bitter tears | on farther | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on far=Location | ||
| 2 | flood | bitter tears | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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