Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 54

She wanted to get down the ladder quietly, but her fright prevented her from taking proper heed, and she made a little noise.

Who acts: stranger, fright · What happens: want, get down, prevent, take, make, fright · To what, where: ladder, stranger, proper heed, little noise

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, fright), 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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 get	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ladder	det
7	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
8	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 prevented	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 prevented	cc
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 fright	nmod:poss
12	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 prevented	nsubj
13	prevented	prevent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 prevented	obj
15	from	from	SCONJ	_	16 taking	mark
16	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 prevented	advcl
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 heed	amod
18	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 noise	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 noise	amod
25	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	stranger			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	get down not said to happen	to-infinitive	stranger not said here	the ladder	quietly property	tree rules
3	prevent	past	stranger's fright	stranger		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer she=Theme
4	take	gerund	stranger's fright not said here	proper heed		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme
5	make	past	stranger	a little noise		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent noise=Product
6	fright		stranger			nom fright «feeling 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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