Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 27
Prince Ivan went into the great hall, and began examining the portraits.
Who acts: Prince Ivan · What happens: go, begin, examine · To what, where: great hall, portraits
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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Ivan | compound |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 hall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hall | amod |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | examining | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 began | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 portraits | det |
| 13 | portraits | portrait | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 examining | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince Ivan | the great hall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hall=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Prince Ivan not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | examine | gerund | Prince Ivan not said here | the portraits | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portrait=Theme |
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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