Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 118
She had been stolen from a certain village by the evil spirit.
Who acts: evil spirit · What happens: steal · To what, where: maiden, certain village
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil spirit), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stolen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 stolen | aux:pass |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 village | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 7 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 village | amod |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 spirit | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spirit | det |
| 11 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spirit | amod |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · perfect · passive | the evil spirit | maiden | a certain village | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from village=Source |
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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