Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 18
Prince Ivan buried his parents, and took to living according to their instructions.
Who acts: Prince Ivan, parents · What happens: bury, take, live, accord, instruct · To what, where: parents
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, parents), 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 buried | nsubj |
| 3 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buried | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 buried | conj |
| 9 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 10 living | mark |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 11 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 instructions | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 according | fixed |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 14 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 living | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past | Prince Ivan | Ivan's parents | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Prince Ivan not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | live | gerund | Prince Ivan not said here | accord parents's instructions | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | instruct | parents = parent | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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