Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 4
While the witch was climbing and clambering, Prince Ivan rode and rode, and found himself a long way ahead.
Who acts: witch, Prince · What happens: climb, clamber, ride, find · To what, where: Prince
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 (witch, Prince), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 climbing | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbing | aux |
| 5 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 rode | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 clambering | cc |
| 7 | clambering | clamber | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 climbing | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbing | punct |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 rode | nsubj |
| 10 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Prince | flat |
| 11 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rode | cc |
| 13 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rode | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rode | conj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 20 way | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past · progressive | the witch | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | clamber | gerund | the witch not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ride | past | Prince | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ride | past | Prince not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | find | past | Prince not said here | Prince | a long way obl:unmarked | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
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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