Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 31
Prince Ivan read this inscription, became greatly afflicted, and went off to his tutor.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: read, become, afflict, go off · To what, where: inscription
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), 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 | 3 read | nsubj |
| 2 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Prince | flat |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 inscription | det |
| 5 | inscription | inscription | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | conj |
| 8 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 9 afflicted | advmod |
| 9 | afflicted | afflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 went | cc |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 read | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 went | compound:prt |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 tutor | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tutor | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | Prince | this inscription | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Topic | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Prince not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | afflict | participle | Prince not said here | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | go off | past | Prince not said here | to Prince's tutor | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=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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