Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 102
The Princess got into the carriage and waited to see what would become of Prince Ivan; whether the magic horse would fling his curls to the wind, and scatter his bones across the open plain.
Who acts: Princess, magic horse · What happens: get, wait, see, become, fling, scatter · To what, where: carriage, curls, wind, bones, open plain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, magic horse), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 carriage | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 carriage | det |
| 6 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waited | cc |
| 8 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 waited | advcl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 become | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 become | aux |
| 13 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 see | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Prince | case |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 become | obl |
| 16 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Prince | flat |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 fling | punct |
| 18 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 23 fling | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 horse | det |
| 20 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 horse | amod |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fling | nsubj |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 fling | aux |
| 23 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 got | parataxis |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 curls | nmod:poss |
| 25 | curls | curl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fling | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 wind | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wind | det |
| 28 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fling | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 scatter | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 scatter | cc |
| 31 | scatter | scatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fling | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 bones | nmod:poss |
| 33 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 scatter | obj |
| 34 | across | across | ADP | _ | 37 plain | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 plain | det |
| 36 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 plain | amod |
| 37 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 scatter | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Princess | the carriage | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | the Princess not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | become | would | of Prince | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | fling | would | the magic horse | horse's curls | the wind | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent curl=Theme to wind=Destination | |||
| 6 | scatter | infinitive | the magic horse not said here | horse's bones | the open plain | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |
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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