Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 81
Vasilissa shuddered with fear, but stopped where she was, not knowing which way to run.
Who acts: Vasilissa, clearing · What happens: shudder, stop, not know, run · To what, where: way
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, clearing), 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 shuddered | nsubj |
| 2 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 fear | case |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shuddered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 stopped | cc |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shuddered | conj |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 knowing | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knowing | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 knowing | aux |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knowing | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 knowing | advmod |
| 13 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stopped | xcomp |
| 14 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knowing | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 run | mark |
| 17 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 way | acl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shuddered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shudder | past | Vasilissa | with fear | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | Vasilissa not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · progressive | clearing | which way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | run | to-infinitive | clearing not said here | which way not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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