Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 48

He went his way, but she remained where she was, unrolling the ball.

Who acts: Marusia, stranger · What happens: go, remain, unroll · To what, where: way, ball

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 remained	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 remained	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remained	nsubj
8	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 unrolling	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 unrolling	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 unrolling	aux
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 unrolling	punct
13	unrolling	unroll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 remained	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ball	det
15	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unrolling	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	past	Marusia	Marusia's way	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme
2	remain	past	stranger		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	unroll	past · progressive	stranger	the ball	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ball=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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