Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 8

She went back again, and once more began to gnaw the oak.

Who acts: smith · What happens: go back, begin, gnaw · To what, where: oak

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 (smith), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	back	back	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	again	again	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 began	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 began	cc
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 began	advmod
9	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 gnaw	mark
11	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 began	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oak	det
13	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gnaw	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	go back	past	smith		again	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	smith not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	gnaw	to-infinitive	smith not said here	the oak		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=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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