Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 18

Utterance is impossible to her, but "she lifts one hand above the water and by means of two fingers makes signs to show that it was cut."

Who acts: Utterance, wife, signs · What happens: be, lift, mean, make, show, cut · To what, where: wife, one hand, water, signs, Utterance · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Utterance, wife, signs), 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	Utterance	utterance	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 impossible	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 impossible	cop
3	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 impossible	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lifts	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 lifts	cc
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 lifts	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lifts	nsubj
10	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 impossible	conj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 hand	nummod
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifts	obj
13	above	above	ADP	_	15 water	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 water	det
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 means	cc
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 means	case
18	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 impossible	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 fingers	case
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 fingers	nummod
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 makes	obl
22	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 means	ccomp
23	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 makes	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 show	mark
25	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 makes	xcomp
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 cut	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cut	nsubj:pass
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 cut	aux:pass
29	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 show	ccomp
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 impossible	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Utterance		wife		impossible property	tree rules
2	lift in a quote	present	wife	one hand		the water		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme above water=Destination
3	mean in a quote	present	Utterance not said here					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make in a quote	present		signs			of two fingers	tree rules
5	show in a quote	to-infinitive	signs not said here					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	cut in a quote	past · passive		Utterance				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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