Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 103
Prince Ivan approached the horse, laid his hand upon its back, placed his foot in the stirrup--the horse stood just as if petrified, didn't so much as wag an ear!
Who acts: Prince Ivan, horse · What happens: approach, lay, place, stand, petrify · To what, where: horse, hand, back, foot, stirrup, much
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 (Prince Ivan, 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | compound |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 approached | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 approached | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obj |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 placed | punct |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 approached | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 foot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 stirrup | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stirrup | det |
| 19 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placed | obl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 placed | conj |
| 24 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 as | advmod |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 stood | advmod |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 petrified | mark |
| 27 | petrified | petrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 as | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 much | punct |
| 29 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 much | aux |
| 30 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 much | advmod |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 much | advmod |
| 32 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stood | obj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 wag | case |
| 34 | wag | wag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 much | nmod |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 ear | det |
| 36 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 much | nsubj |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | Prince Ivan | the horse | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | Prince Ivan not said here | horse's hand | hand's back | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme upon back=Destination | |||
| 3 | place | past | Prince Ivan not said here | horse's foot | the stirrup | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in stirrup=Destination | |||
| 4 | stand | past | the horse | much | as wag | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | petrify a condition, not said to happen | participle | the horse not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: 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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