Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 92

There was once an old woman who had a daughter; and her daughter went down to the pond one day to bathe with the other girls.

Who acts: old woman, daughter · What happens: be, have, go down, bathe · To what, where: daughter

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, daughter), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 woman	acl:relcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 daughter	det
10	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
16	down	down	ADV	_	15 went	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 pond	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pond	det
19	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 day	nummod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 went	obl:unmarked
22	to	to	PART	_	23 bathe	mark
23	bathe	bathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 went	advcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 girls	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 girls	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 girls	amod
27	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 bathe	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old woman		there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	a old woman	a daughter				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	go down	past	woman's daughter			day	to the pond; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	bathe	to-infinitive	woman's daughter not said here				with the other girls	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with girl=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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