Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 166
And she gnawed, and gnawed, and gnawed, until at last she smashed two front teeth.
Who acts: Witch · What happens: gnaw, smash · To what, where: two front teeth
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 (Witch), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gnawed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gnawed | nsubj |
| 3 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gnawed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gnawed | cc |
| 6 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 gnawed | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 gnawed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 gnawed | cc |
| 9 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gnawed | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 last | punct |
| 11 | until | until | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 last | case |
| 13 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gnawed | conj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 smashed | nsubj |
| 15 | smashed | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 last | acl:relcl |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 teeth | nummod |
| 17 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 teeth | amod |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 smashed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gnawed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gnaw | past | Witch | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gnaw | participle | Witch not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gnaw | participle | Witch not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | smash | past | Witch | two front teeth | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=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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