Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 146
Having said this, the hag turned to the wall and began to snore, and Vasilissa took to feeding her doll.
Who acts: hag, Vasilissa · What happens: have, say, turn, begin, snore, take · To what, where: this, wall, doll · 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 (hag, 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 turned | advcl |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | acl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 said | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hag | det |
| 6 | hag | hag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 snore | mark |
| 14 | snore | snore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 began | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 17 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 19 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 20 feeding | mark |
| 20 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 took | advcl |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 doll | nmod:poss |
| 22 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feeding | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the hag not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | the hag | the wall | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to wall=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | the hag not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | snore | to-infinitive | the hag not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | take | past | Vasilissa | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | feed | gerund | Vasilissa not said here | hag's doll | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent doll=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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