Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 86

But the Princess began to weep bitterly, and her scalding tears fell on the face of St. George and awoke him, and he slew the monster, and afterwards converted all the inhabitants of Troyan to Christianity.

Who acts: Princess, scalding · What happens: begin, weep, be, fall, awake, slay · To what, where: scalding, face, monster

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (Princess, scalding), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 began	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Princess	det
3	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 weep	mark
6	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	6 weep	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fell	cc
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 scalding	nmod:poss
11	scalding	scalding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	nsubj
12	tears	tear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 scalding	cop
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	parataxis
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 face	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 face	det
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 George	case
18	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 George	nmod:desc
19	George	George	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 face	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 awoke	cc
21	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fell	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 awoke	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slew	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 slew	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 slew	nsubj
26	slew	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 began	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 monster	det
28	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slew	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 converted	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 converted	cc
31	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	32 converted	advmod
32	converted	converted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 began	parataxis
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 inhabitants	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 inhabitants	det
35	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 converted	parataxis
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Troyan	case
37	Troyan	Troyan	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 inhabitants	nmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 Christianity	case
39	Christianity	Christianity	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 inhabitants	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the Princess				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	weep	to-infinitive	the Princess not said here			bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present		Princess's scalding			tree rules
4	fall	past	Princess's scalding		the face of George St.		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location
5	awake	past	Princess's scalding not said here	scalding			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
6	slay	past	scalding	the monster			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=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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