Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 57
"Listen to my riddle, fair princess!" said Prince Ivan. "
Who acts: Prince Ivan, my · What happens: listen, say, riddle · Speech: someone speaks here
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, my), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 riddle | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 riddle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Listen | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 princess | punct |
| 7 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 princess | amod |
| 8 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riddle | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ivan | compound |
| 13 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | to my riddle and fair princess | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to riddle=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Prince Ivan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | riddle in a quote | my | nom riddle «communication intransitive»: 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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