Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 5
She gnawed, and gnawed, and gnawed--broke two lower teeth, and ran off to the forge.
Who acts: Ivashko · What happens: gnaw, break, run off · To what, where: two lower teeth
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 (Ivashko), 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 | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gnawed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gnawed | cc |
| 8 | gnawed | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gnawed | parataxis |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 broke | punct |
| 10 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 gnawed | conj |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 teeth | nummod |
| 12 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 teeth | amod |
| 13 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 broke | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ran | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 gnawed | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 ran | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 forge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forge | det |
| 20 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gnawed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gnaw | past | Ivashko | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gnaw | participle | Ivashko not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gnaw | past | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | break | past | two lower teeth | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tooth=Patient | |||||
| 5 | run off | past | Ivashko not said here | to the forge result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to forge=Result |
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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