Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 85
The other women, who had been terribly frightened, began to cry out:
Who acts: other women · What happens: be, begin, cry out
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 (other women), 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 women | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 women | amod |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 began | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 frightened | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 frightened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 frightened | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 frightened | cop |
| 8 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 9 frightened | advmod |
| 9 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 women | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 women | punct |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cry | mark |
| 13 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cry | compound:prt |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | the other women | frightened, terribly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the other women | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express | to-infinitive | the other women not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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