Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 65
Games, fun, dancing, began anew; the girls knew nothing of what had happened.
Who acts: Games, girls · What happens: begin, know, happen · To what, where: nothing
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 (Games, girls), 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 | Games | game | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 began | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fun | punct |
| 3 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Games | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dancing | punct |
| 5 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fun | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Games | punct |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | anew | anew | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 began | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girls | det |
| 11 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 began | parataxis |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 knew | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 what | case |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 nothing | nmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 happened | aux |
| 17 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Games and fun and dancing | anew property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | know | past | the girls | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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