Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 183
But when she looked round--there was the Fiend sitting at a window.
Who acts: woman, Fiend · What happens: look round, be, sit · To what, where: window
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 (woman, Fiend), 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 | _ | 8 was | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 looked | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 was | advcl |
| 5 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 looked | advmod |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 was | expl |
| 8 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fiend | det |
| 10 | Fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 was | nsubj |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Fiend | acl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 window | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 window | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sitting | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look round | past | woman | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be | past | the Fiend | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | the Fiend not said here | a window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at window=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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