Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 82
And she went straight up to the woman who had been spinning, scooped up from the floor a handful of the dust that had fallen out of the flax, and began stuffing and stuffing that woman's eyes full of it!
Who acts: woman, dust · What happens: go, spin, scoop up, fall, begin · To what, where: handful, floor, flax, stuffing
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 (woman, dust), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 up | advmod |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 woman | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 spinning | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 spinning | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 spinning | aux |
| 12 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 woman | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 scooped | punct |
| 14 | scooped | scoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 spinning | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 scooped | compound:prt |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 floor | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 floor | det |
| 18 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scooped | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 handful | det |
| 20 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scooped | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 dust | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dust | det |
| 23 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 handful | nmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 fallen | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fallen | aux |
| 26 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 dust | acl:relcl |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 flax | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 flax | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 flax | det |
| 30 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fallen | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 began | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 began | cc |
| 33 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 34 | stuffing | stuffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 began | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 stuffing | cc |
| 36 | stuffing | stuffing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stuffing | conj |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 full | nsubj |
| 38 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 38 woman | case |
| 40 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 full | nsubj |
| 41 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stuffing | acl:relcl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 it | case |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 full | obl |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | woman | to the woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | spin | past · perfect · progressive | the woman | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | scoop up | participle | the woman not said here | a handful of the dust | the floor | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent handful=Theme from floor=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | fall | past · perfect | the dust | the flax | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out flax=Location | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | woman not said here | stuffing and stuffing | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuffing=Eventuality |
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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