Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 44
She ordered him to sleep, but she herself went out on the steps, and called aloud with a mighty whistling cry.
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: order, sleep, go out, call · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ordered | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sleep | mark |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 9 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 she | conj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 went | compound:prt |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 steps | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 steps | det |
| 14 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 called | cc |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ordered | conj |
| 18 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 17 called | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 cry | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cry | det |
| 21 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cry | amod |
| 22 | whistling | whistling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cry | compound |
| 23 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Vasilissa | father | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sleep not said to happen | to-infinitive | Vasilissa not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go out | past | Vasilissa | on the steps | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | Vasilissa not said here | with a mighty whistling cry; aloud property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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