Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 104
Prince Ivan took the tubs and made them change places.
Who acts: Prince, tubs · What happens: take, make, change · To what, where: tubs, places
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., 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 (Prince, tubs), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tubs | det |
| 5 | tubs | tub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | xcomp |
| 10 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 change | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Prince | the tubs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tub=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Prince not said here | tubs = tub | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | infinitive | tubs = tub not said here | places | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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