Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 79
Well, they wrangled and wrangled; then they parted asunder.
Who acts: lands · What happens: wrangle, part · To what, where: asunder
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (lands), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 wrangled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wrangled | nsubj |
| 4 | wrangled | wrangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wrangled | cc |
| 6 | wrangled | wrangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wrangled | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 parted | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 parted | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 parted | nsubj |
| 10 | parted | part | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrangled | conj |
| 11 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 parted | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrangle | participle | lands = land | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wrangle | participle | lands = land not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | part | past | lands = land | asunder | then | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent asunder=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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