Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 22
Marusia struck his fancy more than anyone else; so he stuck close to her.
Who acts: Marusia · What happens: strike, stick, fancy · To what, where: fancy
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 (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 | Marusia | Marusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 struck | obj |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 struck | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 7 anyone | case |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 more | obl |
| 8 | else | else | ADV | _ | 7 anyone | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 stuck | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 stuck | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stuck | nsubj |
| 12 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | conj |
| 13 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stuck | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 close | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Marusia | Marusia's fancy | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stick | past | Marusia | close property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fancy | Marusia | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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