Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 15
All those who saw her stood for a time terror-struck; and then they found the babe was dead.
Who acts: door, clothes, babe · What happens: see, stand, strike, find, be · To what, where: those, time · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (door, clothes, babe), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 those | det:predet |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 10 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 terror | punct |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 time | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 found | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 found | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 babe | det |
| 19 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dead | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 dead | cop |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 found | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | those | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | door | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | strike | participle | a time not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | clothes | then | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the babe | dead property | tree rules |
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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