Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 125
Wondering at this, her stepmother sent her two-eyed stepsister to watch her.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: wonder, send, watch · To what, where: this, eyed stepsister, cow
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), 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 | Wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 sent | advcl |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Wondering | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 stepsister | nmod:poss |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 eyed | nummod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 two | punct |
| 11 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stepsister | amod |
| 12 | stepsister | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 watch | mark |
| 14 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 watch | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | cow's stepmother not said here | this | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | send | past | cow's stepmother | cow's eyed stepsister | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stepsister=Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | to-infinitive | cow's stepmother not said here | cow | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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