Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 29
She had only to take her ease in a shady place and pluck flowers, and yet all her work was done in good time; the beds were weeded, and the pails were filled, and the cabbages were watered, and the stove was heated.
Who acts: feed · What happens: have, take, do, weed, fill, water · To what, where: ease, shady place, work, beds, pails, cabbages
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 (feed), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 take | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 take | mark |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ease | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 10 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 place | amod |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flowers | cc |
| 13 | pluck | pluck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flowers | compound |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 place | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 done | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 done | cc |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 all | advmod |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 done | advmod |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 work | nmod:poss |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 done | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 done | aux:pass |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 take | advcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 done | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 weeded | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 beds | det |
| 28 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 weeded | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 weeded | aux:pass |
| 30 | weeded | weed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | parataxis |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 filled | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 filled | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 pails | det |
| 34 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 filled | aux:pass |
| 36 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 weeded | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 watered | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 watered | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 cabbages | det |
| 40 | cabbages | cabbage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 watered | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 watered | aux:pass |
| 42 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | parataxis |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 heated | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 heated | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 stove | det |
| 46 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 heated | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 heated | aux:pass |
| 48 | heated | heat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 watered | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | feed | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | feed not said here | feed's ease | a shady place and pluck flowers | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ease=Value in place=Location | |||
| 3 | do | past · passive | feed's work | time | all property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | weed | past · passive | the beds | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 5 | fill | past · passive | the pails | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | water | past · passive | the cabbages | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 7 | heat | past · passive | the stove | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 8 | work | feed | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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