Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 137
Meanwhile Prince Ivan was running and bounding behind the carriage.
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: run, bound · To what, where: carriage
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), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 running | advmod |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ivan | compound |
| 3 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 running | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 running | aux |
| 5 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bounding | cc |
| 7 | bounding | bound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 running | conj |
| 8 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 10 carriage | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 carriage | det |
| 10 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bounding | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | Prince Ivan | meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bound | gerund | Prince Ivan not said here | the carriage | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind carriage=Trajectory |
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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