Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 3
The babe became still, just as if it was being suckled.
Who acts: babe · What happens: become, suckle · To what, where: babe
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 babe | det |
| 2 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 became | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suckled | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 suckled | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 suckled | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 suckled | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 suckled | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 suckled | aux:pass |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 suckled | aux:pass |
| 12 | suckled | suckle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 became | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the babe | still | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | suckle a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | babe | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=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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