Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 113
She cried all day long; but when the sun set, and it grew dark around, Marusia became afraid of being left alone; so she went to her companions.
Who acts: mother, set, Marusia · What happens: cry, grow around, become, leave, go · To what, where: sun set, companions
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, 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 (mother, set, Marusia), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 cried | advmod |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 set | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | compound |
| 11 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 grew | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grew | nsubj |
| 15 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grew | xcomp |
| 17 | around | around | ADV | _ | 15 grew | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 became | punct |
| 19 | Marusia | Marusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 became | nsubj |
| 20 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 grew | conj |
| 21 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 became | xcomp |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 left | mark |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 left | aux:pass |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 afraid | ccomp |
| 25 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 left | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 went | punct |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 went | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 went | nsubj |
| 29 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 companions | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 companions | nmod:poss |
| 32 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 went | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | mother | sun set | day | long property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | grow around | past | set | around, dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Marusia | afraid property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund · passive | Marusia not said here | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | go | past | mother | mother's companions | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to companion=Initial_Location |
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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