Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 117
All three set out, but only the youngest, Prince Vasily, succeeded in climbing the steep hill, whereon stood the palace in which his mother and Vikhor lived.
Who acts: three, youngest, mother · What happens: set out, succeed, climb, stand, live · To what, where: steep hill, palace
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, youngest, mother), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 succeeded | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 succeeded | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 youngest | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 youngest | det |
| 9 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 succeeded | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Prince | punct |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 youngest | appos |
| 12 | Vasily | vasily | ADV | _ | 14 succeeded | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Vasily | punct |
| 14 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 climbing | mark |
| 16 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 succeeded | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hill | det |
| 18 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hill | amod |
| 19 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 climbing | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 21 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 stood | advmod |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 succeeded | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 palace | det |
| 24 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 lived | obl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lived | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Vikhor | cc |
| 30 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 mother | conj |
| 31 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 palace | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | all three | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | succeed | past | the youngest | vasily property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | climb | gerund | the youngest not said here | the steep hill | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the youngest not said here | the palace | whereon property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | live | past | Prince's mother and Vikhor | the palace | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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