Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 144
Vasilissa took flour, kneaded dough, and made a pie.
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: take, knead, make · To what, where: flour, pie
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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dough | punct |
| 5 | kneaded | knead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dough | amod |
| 6 | dough | dough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flour | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pie | det |
| 11 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Vasilissa | flour and kneaded dough | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flour=Theme | ||||
| 2 | knead | participle | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material | ||||||
| 3 | make | past | Vasilissa not said here | a pie | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pie=Product |
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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