Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 101
Then Frost took pity on the girl, wrapped her up in furs, and warmed her with blankets.
Who acts: Frost · What happens: take, wrap up, warm · To what, where: pity, Frost, furs
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frost), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Frost | Frost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 girl | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girl | det |
| 7 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrapped | punct |
| 9 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wrapped | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 furs | case |
| 13 | furs | fur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wrapped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warmed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 warmed | cc |
| 16 | warmed | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 warmed | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 blankets | case |
| 19 | blankets | blanket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 warmed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Frost | pity | then | on the girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on girl=Destination | ||
| 2 | wrap up | past | Frost not said here | Frost | furs | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in fur=Destination | |||
| 3 | warm | past | Frost not said here | Frost | with blankets | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with blanket=Instrument |
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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