Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 16
She makes her husband invisible, while she assumes the form of a woodman.
Who acts: demon · What happens: make, assume, form · To what, where: husband, form, woodman
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 (demon), 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 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 husband | nmod:poss |
| 4 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 5 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 assumes | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 assumes | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 assumes | nsubj |
| 9 | assumes | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 form | det |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assumes | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 woodman | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woodman | det |
| 14 | woodman | woodman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 form | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | demon | demon's husband | invisible property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Product | |||
| 2 | assume | present | demon | the form of a woodman | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | ||||
| 3 | form | a woodman | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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