Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 105
Then she turned the horses into a well, and herself into a bowl, and the Prince into an old, very old man.
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: turn · To what, where: horses, well
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilissa), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horses | det |
| 5 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 well | det |
| 8 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 herself | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 herself | cc |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 turned | obl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bowl | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bowl | det |
| 14 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Prince | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Prince | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Prince | det |
| 18 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 bowl | appos |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 old | punct |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 old | advmod |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Vasilissa | the horses | a well | then | into a bowl; into a old old man; Vasilissa obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme into well=Source into bowl=Trajectory into man=Destination |
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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