Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 146
Well, the old woman and Vasilissa the Wise reached the palace just at dinner-time.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: reach · To what, where: palace
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 (old woman), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 reached | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Vasilissa | cc |
| 7 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 woman | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wise | det |
| 9 | Wise | Wise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Vasilissa | appos |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 time | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 15 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 time | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 dinner | punct |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 reached | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the old woman and Vasilissa | the palace | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
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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