Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 130

She bethought herself that she had a grandmother--an old, very old woman, who had become blind from length of years. "

Who acts: matter, old old woman · What happens: bethink, have, become · To what, where: matter, grandmother, length

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 (matter, old old woman), 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 bethought	nsubj
2	bethought	bethink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 bethought	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bethought	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 grandmother	det
8	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	15 woman	punct
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 old	punct
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 old	advmod
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grandmother	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 become	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 become	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 become	aux
19	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 woman	acl:relcl
20	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 become	xcomp
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 length	case
22	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 become	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 years	case
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 length	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bethought	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 bethought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bethink	past	matter	matter			tree rules
2	have	past	matter	a grandmother			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Patient
3	become	past · perfect	a old old woman		length of years	blind property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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