Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 147

The doll fed, and then said to her what it had said the day before:

Who acts: doll, wall · What happens: feed, say · To what, where: doll, hag · 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 (doll, wall), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doll	det
2	doll	doll	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 doll	acl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 said	advmod
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 said	obj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	aux
13	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl:unmarked
16	before	before	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	feed	participle		the doll not said here				vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the doll		hag	then		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past · perfect	wall			day	before property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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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