Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 47
The Spider, tightly squeezing her throat, prepared to put her out of the world.
Who acts: Spider · What happens: squeeze, prepare, put · To what, where: throat, Spider, world
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spider), 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 Spider | det |
| 2 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 squeezing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spider | punct |
| 4 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 5 squeezing | advmod |
| 5 | squeezing | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 throat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 squeezing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 prepared | punct |
| 9 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 squeezing | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 put | mark |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 prepared | xcomp |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 squeezing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | gerund | the Spider | Spider's throat | tightly property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Theme | |||
| 2 | prepare | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | Spider | the world | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme out world=Destination |
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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