Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 144

She began ripping the skin open in another place, but with just the same result.

Who acts: mother · What happens: begin, rip · To what, where: skin

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ripping	rip	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 began	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 skin	det
5	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ripping	obj
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ripping	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 open	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 result	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 result	cc
12	with	with	ADP	_	16 result	case
13	just	just	ADV	_	16 result	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 result	det
15	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 result	amod
16	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 began	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	mother						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	rip	gerund	mother not said here	the skin				open property	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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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