Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 2
Well, just at midnight she heard some one quietly open the door and go up to the cradle.
Who acts: midnight, one · What happens: hear, open, go up · To what, where: door · 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 (midnight, one), 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 midnight | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 midnight | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 midnight | case |
| 5 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 open | nsubj |
| 10 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 11 open | advmod |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 heard | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 door | det |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 open | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 cradle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cradle | det |
| 19 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | midnight | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | open | infinitive | some one | the door | quietly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 3 | go up | infinitive | some one not said here | to the cradle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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