Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 109
The Princess took it into her head to make one more trial of Prince Ivan, so she squeezed his hand so hard that he could not bear the pain.
Who acts: Princess, bride, Ivan · What happens: take, make, squeeze, not bear, try · To what, where: hand, head, one more trial, pain, Prince Ivan
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, bride, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | advcl |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 trial | nummod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 trial | amod |
| 12 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ivan | case |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ivan | compound |
| 15 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 trial | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 squeezed | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 squeezed | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 squeezed | nsubj |
| 19 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 squeezed | obj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 hard | advmod |
| 23 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 squeezed | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 bear | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 bear | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 bear | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 bear | advmod |
| 28 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hard | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pain | det |
| 30 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bear | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Princess | hand | bride's head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | one more trial of Prince Ivan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset trial=Product | ||||
| 3 | squeeze | past | bride | Ivan's hand | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 4 | not bear | could | Ivan | the pain | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pain=Patient | ||||
| 5 | try | Prince Ivan | nom trial «act transitive»: of=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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