Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 15
"Let Prince Ivan be weighed against me, to see which is the heavier.
Who acts: you, Prince Ivan · What happens: let, weigh, see, be · To what, where: Prince Ivan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ivan | compound |
| 4 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 weighed | aux:pass |
| 6 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 7 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 weighed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | conj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 heavier | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 heavier | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heavier | det |
| 15 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 see | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Prince Ivan | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weigh in a quote | infinitive · passive | Prince Ivan not said here | against the witch = witch | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value» | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | heavy property | tree rules |
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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