Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 36
Prince Ivan begged Katoma to go with him, and gave his word of honor to obey him whether in joy or grief.
Who acts: Prince Ivan, Ivan · What happens: beg, go, give, obey, word · To what, where: Katoma, word, Ivan, honor
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, 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 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | xcomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 go | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gave | cc |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 begged | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 word | nmod:poss |
| 13 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 honor | case |
| 15 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 word | nmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 obey | mark |
| 17 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 gave | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 obey | obj |
| 19 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 21 joy | mark |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 joy | case |
| 21 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obey | xcomp |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 grief | cc |
| 23 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 joy | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | Prince Ivan | Katoma | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent katoma=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan not said here | with Ivan | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Prince Ivan not said here | Ivan's word of honor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | obey | to-infinitive | Prince Ivan not said here | Ivan | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | word | Ivan | honor | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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