Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 170
Vasilissa thought of the three pairs of hands, but held her peace.
Who acts: Vasilissa, granny · What happens: think, hold, pacify · To what, where: peace
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, granny), 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 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pairs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pairs | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 pairs | nummod |
| 6 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 thought | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hands | case |
| 8 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pairs | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 held | cc |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 peace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Vasilissa | of the three pairs of hands | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | Vasilissa not said here | granny's peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pacify | granny | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=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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