Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of the Unlucky Days, part 2, sentence 10
The prince returned to his own people and fell a-weeping.
Who acts: prince · What happens: return, fall · To what, where: weeping
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of the Unlucky Days, 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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 people | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 people | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 returned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fell | cc |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 weeping | det |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 a | punct |
| 12 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the prince | to prince's own people result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to people=Result | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | the prince not said here | a weeping | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient weeping=Result |
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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