Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 44
Even more than before did he stick to Marusia, not a step would he budge from her.
Who acts: deal, step · What happens: stick, not budge · To what, where: Marusia
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 (deal, step), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 stick | advmod |
| 3 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 5 did | mark |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 did | mark |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stick | aux |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stick | nsubj |
| 7 | stick | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Marusia | case |
| 9 | Marusia | Marusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stick | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 budge | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 budge | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 step | det |
| 13 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 budge | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 budge | aux |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 budge | nsubj |
| 16 | budge | budge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stick | conj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 budge | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | past · do-support | deal | Marusia | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to marusia=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | not budge | would | a step | from youth | tree rules |
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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