Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 113
This Prince Ivan seizes, and a long struggle takes place between him and Vikhor, who flies away with him over seas and into the clouds.
Who acts: Prince Ivan, long struggle, place · What happens: seize, take, fly away · To what, where: place, seas
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 Ivan, long struggle, place), 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 | 3 Ivan | nsubj |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ivan | compound |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seizes | nsubj |
| 4 | seizes | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 takes | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 takes | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 struggle | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 struggle | amod |
| 9 | struggle | struggle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 takes | nsubj |
| 10 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seizes | conj |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 takes | obj |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 place | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Vikhor | cc |
| 15 | Vikhor | Vikhor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 him | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flies | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 flies | nsubj |
| 18 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 flies | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 flies | obl |
| 22 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 seas | case |
| 23 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flies | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 clouds | cc |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 clouds | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 clouds | det |
| 27 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 seas | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seizes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | present | Prince Ivan | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | present | a long struggle | place | between Vikhor | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 3 | fly away | present | place | seas and the clouds | with Vikhor; away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over sea=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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