Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 135
On the fourth day she clad herself like a beggar, went into the capital, and took up her quarters in an old woman's house.
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: clad, go, take up · To what, where: Vasilissa, capital, quarters, house
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clad | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 clad | nsubj |
| 6 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 clad | obj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 beggar | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 beggar | det |
| 10 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clad | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 went | punct |
| 12 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 clad | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 capital | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 capital | det |
| 15 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 clad | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 took | compound:prt |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 quarters | nmod:poss |
| 21 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 house | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 woman | case |
| 27 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clad | past | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | day | like a beggar | tree rules | ||
| 2 | go | past | Vasilissa not said here | the capital | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into capital=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take up | past | Vasilissa not said here | Vasilissa's quarters | a old woman's house | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent quarter=Value in house=Location |
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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