Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 158
Up comes "the honorable widow," the wasp, and falls straight into the trap.
What happens: come, fall · To what, where: honorable widow, trap
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: 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 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 2 comes | advmod |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 widow | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 widow | det |
| 5 | honorable | honorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 widow | amod |
| 6 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 comes | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wasp | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wasp | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wasp | det |
| 10 | wasp | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 widow | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 falls | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 falls | cc |
| 13 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 comes | conj |
| 14 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 17 trap | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 trap | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 trap | det |
| 17 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 falls | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | the honorable widow and the wasp | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fall | present | the trap | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient trap=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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