Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 12
When the lady heard that the Smith had only turned her husband into a cinder, instead of making him young, she was tremendously angry, and she called together her trusty servants, and ordered them to drag him to the gallows.
Who acts: lady, Smith · What happens: hear, turn, make, be, call together, order · To what, where: husband, cinder, trusty servants, servants, gallows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, Smith), 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 | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 turned | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Smith | det |
| 7 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | aux |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 cinder | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cinder | det |
| 15 | cinder | cinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 making | punct |
| 17 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 19 making | mark |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 instead | fixed |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 heard | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 making | obj |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 making | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 angry | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 angry | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 angry | cop |
| 25 | tremendously | tremendously | ADV | _ | 26 angry | advmod |
| 26 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 young | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 called | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 called | cc |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 called | nsubj |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 31 | together | together | ADV | _ | 30 called | advmod |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 servants | nmod:poss |
| 33 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 servants | amod |
| 34 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 called | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ordered | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ordered | cc |
| 37 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | parataxis |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 ordered | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 drag | mark |
| 40 | drag | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 ordered | xcomp |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 drag | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 gallows | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 gallows | det |
| 44 | gallows | gallows | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 drag | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the lady | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | turn | past · perfect | the Smith | Smith's husband | a cinder | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent husband=Theme into cinder=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | make | gerund | the lady not said here | husband | young property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 4 | is | past | Smith | angry, tremendously property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | call together speech: assert | past | Smith | Smith's trusty servants | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient | |||
| 6 | order | past | servants = servant | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | drag not said to happen | to-infinitive | husband | the gallows | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to gallows=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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