Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 104
The Prince got on its back, the magic horse sank into the earth up to its fetlocks.
Who acts: Prince, magic horse · What happens: get, sink up · To what, where: back, earth
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, 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 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 back | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sank | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 9 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 horse | amod |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sank | nsubj |
| 11 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | advcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sank | obl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 sank | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 fetlocks | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 fetlocks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | fetlocks | fetlock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sank | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Prince | hand's back | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on back=Source | ||||
| 2 | sink up | past | the magic horse | the earth | to hand's fetlocks | 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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