Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 152
She gnawed, and gnawed, and at length contrived by hard work to bore her way through; but by this time Prince Ivan was far ahead.
Who acts: passing · What happens: gnaw, contrive, bore, be · To what, where: length, way
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (passing), 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 gnawed | nsubj |
| 2 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gnawed | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 gnawed | cc |
| 5 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 gnawed | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 contrived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 contrived | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 length | case |
| 9 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contrived | obl |
| 10 | contrived | contrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 gnawed | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 work | case |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 work | amod |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contrived | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bore | mark |
| 15 | bore | bore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 contrived | advcl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bore | obj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 bore | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 ahead | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 ahead | cc |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 time | det |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ahead | obl |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Ivan | compound |
| 25 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 time | appos |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 ahead | cop |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 ahead | advmod |
| 28 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 2 gnawed | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gnawed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gnaw | past | passing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gnaw | participle | passing not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | contrive | participle | passing not said here | length | by hard work | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | bore | to-infinitive | passing not said here | passing's way | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus way=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | past | time | ahead, far property | tree rules |
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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