Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 33
By the end of a half year she became "quite silky"--all her caprices had been swung out of her.
Who acts: living · What happens: become, swing out · To what, where: caprices
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 (living), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 became | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 year | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 year | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 7 year | compound |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 became | nsubj |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 silky | punct |
| 11 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 12 silky | advmod |
| 12 | silky | silky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 became | xcomp |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 silky | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 swung | punct |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 caprices | det:predet |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 caprices | nmod:poss |
| 17 | caprices | caprice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swung | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 swung | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 swung | aux:pass |
| 20 | swung | swing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 became | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 swung | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | living | by the end of a half year | silky property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | swing out | past · perfect · passive | living's caprices | out living | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme she=Result |
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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