Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 5
She dragged Vasilissa out of the room, pushed her outside the gates, took one of the skulls with blazing eyes from the fence, stuck it on a stick, gave it to her and said:
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: drag, push, take, blaze, stick, give · To what, where: Vasilissa, room, gates, one, fence, stick · 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 (Vasilissa), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dragged | nsubj |
| 2 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dragged | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dragged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dragged | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pushed | obj |
| 11 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 13 gates | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gates | det |
| 13 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pushed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dragged | parataxis |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 skulls | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 skulls | det |
| 19 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 skulls | nmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 fence | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fence | det |
| 25 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stuck | punct |
| 27 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 stuck | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 stick | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 stick | det |
| 31 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stuck | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gave | punct |
| 33 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gave | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 her | case |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gave | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 dragged | conj |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | the room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent vasilissa=Theme out room=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | push | past | Vasilissa not said here | Vasilissa | the gates | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme outside gate=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | take | past | one of the skulls with blazing eyes from the fence | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||||
| 4 | blaze | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | stick | past | fence | a stick | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on stick=Destination | ||||
| 6 | give | past | fence | Vasilissa | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | Vasilissa not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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