Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 121
Petrusha told her how and why he had made his appearance in that palace.
Who acts: Petrusha · What happens: tell, make · To what, where: maiden, appearance, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Petrusha), 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 | Petrusha | Petrusha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 told | nsubj |
| 2 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 told | iobj |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 made | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 made | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 told | ccomp |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 appearance | nmod:poss |
| 11 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Petrusha | maiden | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | Petrusha | Petrusha's appearance | that palace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product |
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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