Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 22
The time came for the old crone to die, so she summoned her daughter and gave her these instructions:
Who acts: time, woman · What happens: come, die, summon, give · To what, where: daughter, instructions, woman
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 (time, woman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 crone | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crone | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crone | amod |
| 7 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 die | mark |
| 9 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 crone | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 summoned | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 summoned | advmod |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 summoned | nsubj |
| 13 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 summoned | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 summoned | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 instructions | det |
| 20 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time | for the old crone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | the time not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | summon | past | woman | woman's daughter | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | give | past | woman not said here | this instructions | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient instruction=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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