Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 57
Vasilissa went into her little closet, set before the doll a supper which she had provided beforehand, and said:
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: go, set, provide, say · To what, where: little closet, doll, supper · 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 (Vasilissa), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 closet | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 closet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 closet | amod |
| 6 | closet | closet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 closet | acl |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 doll | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 doll | det |
| 11 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 supper | det |
| 13 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doll | conj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 provided | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 provided | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 provided | aux |
| 17 | provided | provide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 supper | acl:relcl |
| 18 | beforehand | beforehand | ADV | _ | 17 provided | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Vasilissa | mother's little closet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into closet=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | set | participle | mother's little closet not said here | the doll and a supper | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before doll=Destination | ||||
| 3 | provide | past · perfect · passive | a supper | beforehand property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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