Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 27
Her doll made her a glorious loom, and by the end of the winter she had weaved a quantity of linen so fine that it might be passed like thread through the eye of a needle.
Who acts: doll, end · What happens: make, weav, pass · To what, where: glorious loom, Vasilissa, doll, eye
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 (doll, end), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 doll | nmod:poss |
| 2 | doll | doll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 loom | det |
| 6 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 loom | amod |
| 7 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 weaved | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 weaved | cc |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 end | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 end | det |
| 12 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 weaved | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 winter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 winter | det |
| 15 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 end | nmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 weaved | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 weaved | aux |
| 18 | weaved | weav | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 made | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 quantity | det |
| 20 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 weaved | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 linen | case |
| 22 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 quantity | nmod |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 fine | advmod |
| 24 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 weaved | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 passed | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 passed | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 passed | aux:pass |
| 29 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 fine | advcl |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 thread | case |
| 31 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 passed | obl |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 eye | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 eye | det |
| 34 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 passed | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 needle | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 needle | det |
| 37 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 eye | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Vasilissa's doll | a glorious loom | Vasilissa | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset she=Beneficiary loom=Product | |||
| 2 | weav | past · perfect · passive | the end of the winter | Vasilissa | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | might · passive | doll | the eye of a needle | like thread | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme through eye=Destination |
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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