Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 92
During the night, back came Mother Friday and took the dust out of that woman's eyes, so that she was able to get about again.
Who acts: dust · What happens: come, take, be, get about · To what, where: dust, eyes
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 (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 | During | during | ADP | _ | 3 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Friday | compound |
| 8 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dust | det |
| 12 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 woman | case |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 able | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 able | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 able | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 able | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 able | cop |
| 24 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 get | mark |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 able | xcomp |
| 27 | about | about | ADV | _ | 28 again | advmod |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 get | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | friday; night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the dust | that woman's eyes | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent dust=Theme out eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | dust | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get about | to-infinitive | dust not said here | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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