Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 90
When they drew near to the capital, what should they see but Prince Ivan driving a herd of cows!
Who acts: companions, Prince Ivan · What happens: draw, see, drive · To what, where: capital, herd
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (companions, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 capital | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 capital | det |
| 7 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 see | obj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 capital | acl:relcl |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 Ivan | cc |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ivan | compound |
| 15 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | conj |
| 16 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 Ivan | acl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 herd | det |
| 18 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 driving | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cows | case |
| 20 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 herd | nmod |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ivan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | companions = companion | the capital | near property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to capital=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | should | companions = companion | the capital | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | drive | gerund | Prince Ivan not said here | a herd of cows | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme herd=Trajectory |
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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