Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 99
A young housewife was spinning late one evening.
Who acts: young housewife · What happens: spin
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 (young housewife), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 housewife | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 housewife | amod |
| 3 | housewife | housewife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spinning | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spinning | aux |
| 5 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 evening | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 evening | nummod |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spinning | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spinning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | past · progressive | a young housewife | evening | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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