Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 74
When Volga awoke, she set off neither slowly nor hurriedly, but with just befitting speed.
Who acts: Volga, Vazuza · What happens: awake, set off, befit · To what, where: speed
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Volga, Vazuza), 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 | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | Volga | Volga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 9 slowly | advmod |
| 9 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 6 set | advmod |
| 10 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 hurriedly | cc |
| 11 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 9 slowly | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 befitting | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 befitting | cc |
| 14 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 befitting | mark |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 befitting | advmod |
| 16 | befitting | befit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 set | advcl |
| 17 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 befitting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Volga | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set off | past | Vazuza | slowly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | befit | gerund | Vazuza not said here | speed | 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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