Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 15
She looked at her stepmother's house, and not seeing a light in a single window, she determined to take the skull in there with her.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: look, not see, determine, take · To what, where: light, single window, skull
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 stepmother | case |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seeing | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 seeing | advmod |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 light | det |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seeing | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 window | amod |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seeing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 determined | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 determined | nsubj |
| 20 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 determined | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 skull | det |
| 24 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 there | case |
| 26 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 take | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 take | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | stepmother | at stepmother's stepmother's house | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not see | gerund | stepmother not said here | a light | a single window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | determine | past | stepmother | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | stepmother not said here | the skull | with stepmother | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent skull=Value in there=Location |
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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