Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 89

Vasilissa went up to the hag in a terrible fright, bowed low before her, and said:--

Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: go up, bow, say · To what, where: terrible fright · 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	up	up	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 hag	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hag	det
6	hag	hag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 fright	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fright	det
9	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fright	amod
10	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bowed	punct
12	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fright	acl
13	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 bowed	advmod
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 bowed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Vasilissa			to the hag; in a terrible fright	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in fright=Attribute
2	bow	participle		a terrible fright not said here	before hag	low property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
3	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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