Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 108

Well, the girl sat there in such a fright that she was as much dead as alive.

Who acts: girl · What happens: sit, be · To what, where: fright

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 fright	case
8	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	10 fright	det:predet
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fright	det
10	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 dead	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 dead	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 dead	cop
14	as	as	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dead	amod
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sat	advcl
17	as	as	ADP	_	18 alive	case
18	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 dead	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the girl			such fright; there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fright=Location
2	is	past	girl					as alive; dead property	tree rules

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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