Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 47
She went out into the street, and while she was taking leave of him she quietly dropped the noose over one of his buttons.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: go out, take, drop · To what, where: street, leave, noose
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 (stranger), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 street | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 street | det |
| 6 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 taking | cc |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 taking | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taking | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taking | aux |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 went | advcl |
| 13 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leave | nmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dropped | nsubj |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 18 dropped | advmod |
| 18 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 taking | acl:relcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 noose | det |
| 20 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dropped | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 dropped | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 buttons | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 buttons | nmod:poss |
| 25 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | stranger | the street | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | take | past · progressive | stranger | leave of Marusia | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | stranger | the noose | over one of Marusia's buttons; quietly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent noose=Theme over one=Destination |
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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