Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 16
She was middle-aged, and had a couple of daughters of her own just about the same age as Vasilissa.
Who acts: widow · What happens: be, have · To what, where: couple
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 (widow), 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 | 5 aged | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 aged | cop |
| 3 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 aged | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 middle | punct |
| 5 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 had | cc |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 aged | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 couple | det |
| 10 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 daughters | case |
| 12 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 couple | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 own | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 own | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 daughters | nmod |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 about | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 age | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 age | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 age | amod |
| 20 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 Vasilissa | case |
| 22 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 age | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 aged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | widow | aged property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | widow not said here | a couple of daughters of widow's own | the same age as Vasilissa | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent couple=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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