Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 138
This occurred on two successive days, but on the second occasion Prince Ivan was a witness of what took place, and he seized her feather-dress and burnt it, and then laid hold of her.
Who acts: This, Prince Ivan, Ivan · What happens: occur, be, take, seize, burnt, lay · To what, where: witness, second occasion, place, feather dress, dress, hold
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, Prince Ivan, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 occurred | nsubj |
| 2 | occurred | occur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 days | nummod |
| 5 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 occurred | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 witness | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 witness | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 occasion | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 occasion | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 occasion | amod |
| 12 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 witness | obl |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ivan | compound |
| 14 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 witness | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 witness | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 witness | det |
| 17 | witness | witness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 occurred | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 what | case |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 witness | nmod |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seized | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seized | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seized | nsubj |
| 25 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 occurred | parataxis |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 dress | nmod:poss |
| 27 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dress | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 feather | punct |
| 29 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seized | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 burnt | cc |
| 31 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seized | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 burnt | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 laid | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 laid | cc |
| 35 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 laid | advmod |
| 36 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seized | conj |
| 37 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 laid | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 her | case |
| 39 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hold | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 occurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occur | participle | This | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Prince Ivan | a witness | the second occasion | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | past | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seize | past | Ivan | mother's feather dress | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Theme | ||||
| 5 | burnt | past | Ivan not said here | dress | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | lay | past | Ivan not said here | hold of mother | then | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | |||
| 7 | hold | mother | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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