Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 110
But Vasilissa set the remnants of the hag's supper before her doll, burst into tears, and said:--
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: set, burst, say · To what, where: remnants, doll, tears · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 set | cc |
| 2 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 remnants | det |
| 5 | remnants | remnant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 supper | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hag | det |
| 8 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 supper | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 hag | case |
| 10 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remnants | nmod |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 doll | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 doll | nmod:poss |
| 13 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 burst | punct |
| 15 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 tears | case |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 burst | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | discourse |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Vasilissa | the remnants of the hag's supper | supper's doll | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent remnant=Theme before doll=Destination | |||
| 2 | burst | past | Vasilissa not said here | tears | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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