Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 117
But Prince Ivan rushed to the left, quaffed a deep draught of the Water of Strength, and became the mightiest hero in the whole world.
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: rush, quaff, become · To what, where: deep draught, mightiest hero
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 rushed | cc |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ivan | compound |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | nsubj |
| 4 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 left | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 left | det |
| 7 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rushed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 quaffed | punct |
| 9 | quaffed | quaff | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 draught | det |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 draught | amod |
| 12 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 quaffed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Water | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Water | det |
| 15 | Water | Water | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 draught | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Strength | case |
| 17 | Strength | Strength | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Water | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 became | cc |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rushed | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hero | det |
| 22 | mightiest | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 hero | amod |
| 23 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 became | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 26 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 world | amod |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hero | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | Prince Ivan | to the left result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to left=Result | ||||
| 2 | quaff | past | Prince Ivan not said here | a deep draught of the Water of Strength | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Prince Ivan not said here | the mightiest hero in the whole world | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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