Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 61
She made him go to sleep, but she herself went out on the steps, called and whistled with a mighty whistle.
Who acts: help, father · What happens: make, go, go out, call, whistle · To what, where: father, sleep, steps · 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 (help, father), 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 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | 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 made | obj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sleep | case |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 she | conj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 went | compound:prt |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 steps | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 steps | det |
| 15 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 steps | acl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 whistled | cc |
| 19 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 called | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 whistle | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 whistle | det |
| 22 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 whistle | amod |
| 23 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 whistled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | help | father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | father not said here | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | help | on the steps | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | the steps not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | whistle | participle | with a mighty whistle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with whistle=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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