Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 114
Vasilissa the Wise heard the noise made by the fresh set of pursuers, so she turned the Prince into an old priest, and she herself became an ancient church.
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: hear, make, turn, become · To what, where: noise, Prince, old priest, ancient church
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 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wise | det |
| 3 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Vasilissa | flat |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 noise | det |
| 6 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 noise | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 set | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 set | det |
| 10 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 set | amod |
| 11 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pursuers | case |
| 13 | pursuers | pursuer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 set | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 turned | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Prince | det |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 priest | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 priest | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 priest | amod |
| 23 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 became | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 became | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 became | nsubj |
| 27 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 she | conj |
| 28 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 church | det |
| 30 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 church | amod |
| 31 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 became | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Vasilissa | the noise | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | the noise not said here | by the fresh set of pursuers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | Vasilissa | the Prince | a old priest | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent prince=Theme into priest=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | become | past | Vasilissa | a ancient church | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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