Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 35
Her stepmother grew even more savage than before, and replied to every suitor--
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: grow, reply
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 (stepmother), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 savage | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 savage | amod |
| 6 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 before | case |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 savage | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 replied | cc |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grew | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 suitor | case |
| 13 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 suitor | det |
| 14 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | work's stepmother | savage property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | work's stepmother not said here | to every suitor | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to suitor=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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