Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 152
So he only laughed at the old woman, but she was trembling all over, and crying, and scolding him.
Who acts: Ivan, woman · What happens: laugh, tremble, cry, scold · To what, where: Ivan
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, woman), 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 | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 laughed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trembling | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 trembling | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trembling | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 trembling | aux |
| 13 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 laughed | advcl |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 over | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 trembling | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 crying | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crying | cc |
| 18 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 trembling | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 scolding | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 scolding | cc |
| 21 | scolding | scold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 trembling | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 scolding | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Ivan | at the old woman | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tremble | past · progressive | woman | over property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | woman not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scold | gerund | woman not said here | Ivan | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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