Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 52

The old woman rejoiced greatly and began singing anew, and went on singing until the block became a babe."

Who acts: old woman, block · What happens: rejoice, begin, sing, go, become · To what, where: babe

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 (old woman, block), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rejoiced	nsubj
4	rejoiced	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	4 rejoiced	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 began	cc
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rejoiced	conj
8	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 began	xcomp
9	anew	anew	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 singing	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rejoiced	conj
13	on	on	SCONJ	_	14 singing	mark
14	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 went	advcl
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 became	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 block	det
17	block	block	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	nsubj
18	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 babe	det
20	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 became	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rejoiced	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 rejoiced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rejoice	past	the old woman		greatly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	begin	past	the old woman not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the old woman not said here		anew property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	past	the old woman not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sing speech: express	gerund	the old woman not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	become	past	the block	a babe		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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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