Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 104
All she left for Vasilissa was a few scraps--a crust of bread and a morsel of sucking-pig.
Who acts: All, Vasilissa, morsel · What happens: leave, be, suck
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All, Vasilissa, morsel), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 scraps | case |
| 5 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 scraps | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scraps | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 scraps | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scraps | amod |
| 9 | scraps | scrap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 crust | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crust | det |
| 12 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scraps | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bread | case |
| 14 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crust | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 morsel | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 morsel | det |
| 17 | morsel | morsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crust | conj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 sucking | mark |
| 19 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 morsel | acl |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 pig | punct |
| 21 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sucking | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | All | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Vasilissa | for a few scraps | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | suck | gerund | a morsel not said here | vn chew-39.2 «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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