Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 76
The Boyar's daughter fell ill, and went so crazy that she wanted to eat people.
Who acts: daughter, Mind · What happens: fall, go, want, eat · To what, where: people
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 (daughter, Mind), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boyar | det |
| 2 | Boyar | Boyar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Boyar | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 crazy | advmod |
| 11 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 went | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 wanted | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wanted | nsubj |
| 14 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crazy | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 eat | mark |
| 16 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wanted | xcomp |
| 17 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eat | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the Boyar's daughter | ill property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the Boyar's daughter not said here | crazy property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | past | Mind | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | Mind not said here | people | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
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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