Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 9
Well, the girls met together once when this festival arrived, and brewed and baked what was wanted.
Who acts: girls, festival · What happens: meet, arrive, brew, bake, want
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 (girls, festival), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 met | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girls | det |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 met | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 met | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 arrived | mark |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 festival | det |
| 10 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | nsubj |
| 11 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 met | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 brewed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 brewed | cc |
| 14 | brewed | brew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 arrived | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 baked | cc |
| 16 | baked | bake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 brewed | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 wanted | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wanted | aux:pass |
| 19 | wanted | want | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 baked | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | the girls | once, together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | this festival | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | brew | participle | this festival not said here | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bake | participle | this festival not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | want | past · passive | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=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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