Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 20
But as for the Witch-Snake, she remained down below on earth.
Who acts: witch · What happens: remain down · To what, where: earth
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch), 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 | _ | 10 remained | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 remained | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Snake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Snake | det |
| 5 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Snake | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Witch | punct |
| 7 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 as | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remained | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remained | nsubj |
| 10 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 remained | compound:prt |
| 12 | below | below | ADV | _ | 10 remained | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remained | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain down | past | witch | earth | below property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
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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