Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 75
Vasilissa was frightened out of her wits, and stood still as if rooted to the ground.
What happens: frighten, stand, root · To what, where: Vasilissa, wits
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:2124): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 frightened | aux:pass |
| 3 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 wits | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wits | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wits | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wits | wit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 frightened | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stood | cc |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 frightened | conj |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 10 stood | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 rooted | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 rooted | mark |
| 14 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stood | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rooted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past · passive | Vasilissa | fence's wits | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | root | participle | to the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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