Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 95

After a time the girls all came out, and began to put on their shifts, and the old woman's daughter wanted to put on hers, but there was the snake lying on it.

Who acts: girls, daughter, snake · What happens: come out, begin, put, want, be, lie · To what, where: shifts

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 (girls, daughter, snake), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 girls	det
5	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 came	nsubj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 began	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 began	cc
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 put	mark
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 shifts	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 shifts	nmod:poss
16	shifts	shift	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 put	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 wanted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 wanted	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 woman	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 woman	amod
21	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 daughter	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 woman	case
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 wanted	nsubj
24	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
25	to	to	PART	_	26 put	mark
26	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 wanted	xcomp
27	on	on	ADP	_	28 hers	case
28	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 put	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 was	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 was	cc
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 wanted	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 snake	det
34	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 was	nsubj
35	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 snake	acl
36	on	on	ADP	_	37 it	case
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lying	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the girls		time	all, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	the girls not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	put	to-infinitive	the girls not said here	girls's shifts			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shift=Destination
4	want	past	the old woman's daughter				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	put not said to happen	to-infinitive	the old woman's daughter not said here			on daughter	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on her=Destination
6	be	past	the snake	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	lie	gerund	the snake not said here			on Snake	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location
8	shift		girls = girl				nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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