Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 29

Presently in came a tall woman, lank, crooked, with only one eye.

Who acts: tall woman · What happens: come

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 (tall woman), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 came	case
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 lank	punct
8	lank	lank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crooked	punct
10	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 lank	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 eye	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 eye	case
13	only	only	ADV	_	14 one	advmod
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 eye	nummod
15	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lank	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a tall woman					presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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