Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 74
But she has prepared three puppets, and when she goes into her room to dress for the wedding, she says to them:
Who acts: sister · What happens: prepare, go, dress, say · To what, where: three puppets, room, parents · 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 (sister), 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 | _ | 4 prepared | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 prepared | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 prepared | aux |
| 4 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 puppets | nummod |
| 6 | puppets | puppet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 prepared | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 says | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 says | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 goes | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 goes | nsubj |
| 11 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 says | advcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 room | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 room | nmod:poss |
| 14 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 goes | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dress | mark |
| 16 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 room | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 wedding | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wedding | det |
| 19 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dress | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 goes | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 says | nsubj |
| 22 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 prepared | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 says | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | present · perfect | sister | three puppets | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppet=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | present | sister | sister's room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | dress | to-infinitive | sister not said here | for the wedding | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | sister | parents = parent | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=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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