Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 84

When the woman awoke, she began squalling at the top of her voice about her eyes, but couldn't tell what was the matter with them.

Who acts: woman · What happens: awake, begin, squall, not tell, be · To what, where: top, matter · 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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 awoke	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 awoke	nsubj
4	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 awoke	punct
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	squalling	squall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 began	xcomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 top	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 top	det
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 squalling	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 voice	case
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 voice	nmod:poss
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod
15	about	about	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 voice	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 tell	cc
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 tell	advmod
22	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 began	parataxis
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 matter	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 matter	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 matter	det
26	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	ccomp
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 matter	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	awake	past	the woman				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	woman				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	squall speech: other	gerund	woman not said here		the top of woman's voice about woman's eyes		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not tell speech: assert	could					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		the matter		with eyes = eye	tree rules

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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