Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 118
Entering it during Vikhor's absence, the Prince made himself known to his mother, "who straightway gave him to eat, and concealed him in a distant apartment, hiding him behind a number of cushions, so that Vikhor might not easily discover him."
Who acts: Prince, Vikhor · What happens: enter, make, know, give, eat, conceal · To what, where: palace, Prince, distant apartment, number · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prince, Vikhor), 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 | Entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 made | advcl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Entering | obj |
| 3 | during | during | ADP | _ | 6 absence | case |
| 4 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 absence | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Vikhor | case |
| 6 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Entering | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Entering | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Prince | det |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 made | obj |
| 12 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 made | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mother | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 known | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 eat | mark |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 gave | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 concealed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 concealed | cc |
| 26 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | parataxis |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 concealed | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 apartment | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 apartment | det |
| 30 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 apartment | amod |
| 31 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 concealed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 hiding | punct |
| 33 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 concealed | advcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 hiding | obj |
| 35 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 37 number | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 number | det |
| 37 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hiding | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 cushions | case |
| 39 | cushions | cushion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 number | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 discover | punct |
| 41 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 47 discover | mark |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 so | fixed |
| 43 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 discover | nsubj |
| 44 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 discover | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 discover | advmod |
| 46 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 47 discover | advmod |
| 47 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 concealed | conj |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 discover | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 50 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | the Prince not said here | palace | during Vikhor's absence | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | the Prince | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | Prince not said here | to Prince's mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | give in a quote | past | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | conceal in a quote | past | Prince | a distant apartment | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in apartment=Location | ||||
| 7 | hide in a quote | gerund | Prince | a number of cushions | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient behind number=Location | ||||
| 8 | not discover in a quote | might | Vikhor | Prince | easily property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 9 | absent | Vikhor | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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