Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 101

She had been left alone for a long time, and after midnight, when the first cock crew, she began to think about going to bed, only she would have liked to finish spinning what she had in hand. "

Who acts: crew · What happens: leave, begin, think, go, like, finish · To what, where: fiction, first cock crew, bed, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crew), 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	4 left	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 left	aux:pass
4	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 left	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 midnight	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 midnight	cc
12	after	after	ADP	_	13 midnight	case
13	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 when	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 midnight	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crew	det
17	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	19 crew	amod
18	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crew	compound
19	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 when	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 began	punct
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 began	nsubj
22	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 crew	acl:relcl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 think	mark
24	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 began	xcomp
25	about	about	SCONJ	_	26 going	mark
26	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 think	ccomp
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 bed	case
28	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 going	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 liked	punct
30	only	only	ADV	_	34 liked	advmod
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 liked	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 liked	aux
33	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 liked	aux
34	liked	like	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 began	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 finish	mark
36	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 liked	xcomp
37	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 finish	xcomp
38	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 spinning	obj
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 had	nsubj
40	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 what	acl:relcl
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 hand	case
42	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 had	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive		fiction		time	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	begin	past	crew	the first cock crew not said here				tree rules
3	think speech: other	to-infinitive	crew not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	go	gerund			bed			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
5	like	would · perfect	crew					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	finish not said to happen	to-infinitive	crew not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	spin	gerund	crew not said here					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme
8	have	past	crew		hand			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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