Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 116

She swallowed the salt, thinking it was Ivan Popyalof, but afterwards--when she had tasted the salt, and found out it was not Ivan--she flew after him again.

Who acts: wife, salt · What happens: swallow, think, be, taste, find out, not be · To what, where: salt, Ivan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, salt), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swallowed	nsubj
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 salt	det
4	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thinking	punct
6	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 swallowed	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 Ivan	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Ivan	cop
9	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thinking	obl
10	Popyalof	Popyalof	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ivan	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tasted	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 tasted	cc
13	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	18 tasted	advmod
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 afterwards	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 tasted	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tasted	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 tasted	aux
18	tasted	taste	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 swallowed	parataxis
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 salt	det
20	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tasted	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 found	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 found	cc
23	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swallowed	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 found	compound:prt
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 Ivan	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Ivan	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 Ivan	advmod
28	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 found	ccomp
29	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 flew	punct
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flew	nsubj
31	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 swallowed	parataxis
32	after	after	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 flew	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	31 flew	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 swallowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	wife	the salt			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Patient
2	think speech: other	gerund	wife not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	salt	Ivan			tree rules
4	taste	past · perfect	wife	the salt		afterwards property	vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme salt=Attribute
5	find out	past					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	not is a	past	salt	Ivan			tree rules
7	fly	past	wife		after IVAN; again		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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