Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 122
They drove and drove, and as they drove along Prince Ivan went to sleep.
Who acts: eyes, Prince Ivan · What happens: drive, go · To what, where: sleep
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 (eyes, Prince 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 drove | nsubj |
| 2 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 drove | cc |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drove | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 drove | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 drove | cc |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 drove | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drove | nsubj |
| 9 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drove | conj |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 went | mark |
| 11 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Ivan | compound |
| 12 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 drove | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 sleep | case |
| 15 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | eyes = eye | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drive | past | eyes = eye not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drive | past | eyes = eye | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | past | Prince Ivan | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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