Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 134
But after she had borne him a son, she went to pay a visit to her father, and her stepmother availed herself of the opportunity to turn her into a goose, and to set her own two-eyed daughter in her place.
Who acts: turn, stepmother · What happens: bear, go, pay, avail, turn, set · To what, where: turn, visit, own eyed daughter, place
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 (turn, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 borne | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 borne | aux |
| 5 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 went | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 borne | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 borne | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 borne | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pay | mark |
| 13 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 went | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 visit | det |
| 15 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pay | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 father | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pay | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 availed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 availed | cc |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 availed | nsubj |
| 23 | availed | avail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 availed | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 opportunity | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 opportunity | det |
| 27 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 availed | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 turn | mark |
| 29 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 opportunity | acl |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 turn | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 goose | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 goose | det |
| 33 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 turn | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 set | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 set | cc |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 set | mark |
| 37 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 availed | advcl |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 39 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 daughter | amod |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 eyed | nummod |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 two | punct |
| 42 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 daughter | amod |
| 43 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 place | case |
| 45 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 place | nmod:poss |
| 46 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 set | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | past · perfect · passive | turn | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | past | turn | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pay | to-infinitive | turn not said here | a visit | to turn's father | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | |||
| 4 | avail | past | turn's stepmother | turn | of the opportunity | tree rules | |||
| 5 | turn | to-infinitive | turn's stepmother not said here | turn | into a goose result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Theme into goose=Result | |||
| 6 | set | to-infinitive | turn's stepmother not said here | turn's own eyed daughter | turn's place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in place=Destination |
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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