Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 139
The old woman was evidently well acquainted with Wednesday's ways.
What happens: acquaint
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 acquainted | parataxis |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 acquainted | aux |
| 5 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 7 acquainted | advmod |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 acquainted | advmod |
| 7 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 ways | case |
| 9 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ways | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Wednesday | case |
| 11 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 acquainted | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 acquainted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | acquaint speech: other | past · passive | with Wednesday's ways; evidently, well property | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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