Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 152
Then she slipped in through the window, opened the door, and let in her guests.
Who acts: doubt · What happens: slip in, open, let · To what, where: window, door
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 (doubt), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 slipped | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 slipped | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 slipped | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 guests | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 guests | nmod:poss |
| 17 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 let | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip in | past | doubt | the window | then | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | open | past | doubt not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | doubt not said here | in doubt's guests | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: 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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