Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 24
After saying this, the witch lay ill two or three days, and then died.
Who acts: witch · What happens: say, lie, die · To what, where: this · 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 (witch), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 saying | mark |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lay | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 saying | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 witch | det |
| 6 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | nsubj |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 days | amod |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 days | nummod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 three | cc |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 two | conj |
| 12 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lay | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 died | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 died | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 died | advmod |
| 16 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the witch not said here | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the witch | day | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | die | past | the witch not said here | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «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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