Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 121
So the Snake's Wife began licking the doors.
Who acts: Wife · What happens: begin, lick · To what, where: doors
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Snake | det |
| 3 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Snake | case |
| 5 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 began | nsubj |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | licking | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 began | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 doors | det |
| 9 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 licking | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the Snake's Wife | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | lick | gerund | the Snake's Wife not said here | the doors | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent door=Source |
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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