Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 149
Wednesday rushed out of the house and ran to look, and the woman sprang inside, shut the door, and set a cross upon it.
Who acts: Wednesday, woman · What happens: rush out, run, look, spring, shut, set · To what, where: house, door, cross
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 (Wednesday, 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 | Wednesday | Wednesday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 ran | cc |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rushed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 look | mark |
| 10 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ran | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sprang | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sprang | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sprang | nsubj |
| 15 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 look | advcl |
| 16 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 15 sprang | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shut | punct |
| 18 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 look | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shut | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 set | cc |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 look | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cross | det |
| 25 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | obj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | past | Wednesday | the house | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Wednesday not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Wednesday not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | spring | past | the woman | inside property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shut | infinitive | Wednesday not said here | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 6 | set | infinitive | Wednesday not said here | a cross | cross | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme upon it=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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