Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 55
She turned and twisted, but didn't break the cord.
Who acts: Granny · What happens: turn, twist, not break · To what, where: cord
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 (Granny), 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 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 twisted | cc |
| 4 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 break | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 break | cc |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 break | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 break | advmod |
| 9 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 turned | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cord | det |
| 11 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 break | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Granny | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | twist | past | Granny not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not break | past · do-support | Granny not said here | the cord | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cord=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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