Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 30
But no seamstress could be found to make them up, until the linen was entrusted to Vasilissa.
Who acts: seamstress · What happens: find, make up, entrust · To what, where: seamstress, shirts, linen, Vasilissa
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 (seamstress), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 found | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 seamstress | det |
| 3 | seamstress | seamstress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 found | aux:pass |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 make | mark |
| 8 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 found | xcomp |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 make | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 make | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 entrusted | punct |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 entrusted | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 linen | det |
| 14 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entrusted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 16 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 found | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Vasilissa | case |
| 18 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 entrusted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | could · passive | no seamstress | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make up | to-infinitive | no seamstress not said here | shirts = shirt | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | entrust | past · passive | the linen | Vasilissa | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to vasilissa=Recipient |
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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