Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 84
When she woke up in the morning, her father lay dead!
Who acts: help, father · What happens: wake up, lie
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 (help, father), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 woke | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lay | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 woke | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 morning | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 woke | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woke | punct |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | nsubj |
| 11 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lay | xcomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | help | morning | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | help's father | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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