Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 1, sentence 33
But the Prince also fell down on his knees and read out of his prayer-book and prayed to God, and said to the Dragon, "Come forth! come forth! and I'll give thee breakfast and dinner at the same time!"
Who acts: Prince · What happens: fall down, read out, pray, say, come, give · To what, where: knees, prayer book, God, Dragon, breakfast, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | _ | 5 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 knees | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 knees | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fell | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 read | cc |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fell | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 book | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 book | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 book | nmod:poss |
| 15 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 book | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 prayer | punct |
| 17 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 prayed | cc |
| 19 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 God | case |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 prayed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Dragon | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Dragon | det |
| 27 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 said | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Come | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Come | punct |
| 30 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 31 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 30 Come | advmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Come | punct |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 Come | conj |
| 34 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 33 come | advmod |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 give | cc |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 give | nsubj |
| 38 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 give | aux |
| 39 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 Come | conj |
| 40 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 give | iobj |
| 41 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 give | obj |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 dinner | cc |
| 43 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 breakfast | conj |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 time | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 time | det |
| 46 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 time | amod |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 give | obl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Come | punct |
| 49 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | the Prince | Prince's knees | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | |||
| 2 | read out | infinitive | the Prince not said here | Prince's prayer book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pray | past | the Prince not said here | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | the Prince not said here | the Dragon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to dragon=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come in a quote | infinitive | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | give in a quote | future | the Prince = prince | breakfast and dinner | thee | time | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient breakfast=Theme |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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