Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 16

For the first time in her life she was cordially received by her stepmother and stepsisters, who told her that from the moment she went away they hadn't had a spark of fire in the house.

Who acts: stepmother, stepsisters, fire · What happens: receive, tell, go away, not have, spark · To what, where: stepmother, moment, spark, house · Speech: someone speaks here

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, stepsisters, fire), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 received	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 time	nmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 received	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 received	aux:pass
10	cordially	cordially	ADV	_	11 received	advmod
11	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 stepmother	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stepmother	nmod:poss
14	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 received	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stepsisters	cc
16	stepsisters	stepsister	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stepmother	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 told	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 told	nsubj
19	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stepsisters	acl:relcl
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 told	iobj
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 her	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 moment	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 moment	det
24	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 told	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 moment	acl:relcl
27	away	away	ADV	_	26 went	advmod
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 had	aux
30	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 had	advmod
31	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 told	ccomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 spark	det
33	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 fire	case
35	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 spark	nmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 house	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 house	det
38	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 had	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past · passive	stepmother's stepmother and stepsisters	stepmother			time	cordially property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	stepsisters		stepmother		moment		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go away	past	stepmother	the moment not said here				away property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moment=Theme
4	not have	past · perfect	stepsisters = stepsister	a spark of fire		the house			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Patient
5	spark		fire						nom spark «event intransitive»: of=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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