Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 18
When she made at the barrel, it retreated from her: when she turned from the barrel to the shore, it floated after her.
Who acts: maid, barrel · What happens: make, retreat, turn, float · To what, where: barrel
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 (maid, barrel), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 retreated | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 barrel | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 barrel | det |
| 6 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 retreated | nsubj |
| 9 | retreated | retreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 retreated | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 turned | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 turned | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 retreated | parataxis |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 barrel | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 barrel | det |
| 18 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 shore | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shore | det |
| 21 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 floated | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 floated | nsubj |
| 24 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 turned | conj |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 floated | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 retreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | maid | the barrel | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | retreat | past | barrel | from maid | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | maid | the barrel | to the shore result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from barrel=Initial_State to shore=Result | |||
| 4 | float | past | barrel | after maid | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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