Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 77
Prince Ivan spurred his heroic steed, flew like a dart between the mountains, dipped two flasks in the waters, and instantly turned back."
Who acts: Prince · What happens: spur, fly, dip, turn back · To what, where: heroic steed, two flasks, waters
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), 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 spurred | nsubj |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | spurred | spur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 steed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steed | amod |
| 6 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spurred | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spurred | parataxis |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 dart | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 dart | det |
| 11 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 12 | between | between | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 dart | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dipped | punct |
| 16 | dipped | dip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 flew | conj |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 flasks | nummod |
| 18 | flasks | flask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dipped | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 waters | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 waters | det |
| 21 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 dipped | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 24 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spurred | conj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 turned | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spurred | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 spurred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spur | past | Prince | Prince's heroic steed | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | like a dart between the mountains | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dip | past | two flasks | the waters | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent flask=Theme in water=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | turn back | past | Prince not said here | instantly property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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