Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 114

Well, early next morning the old woman gave her girls their breakfast, dressed them as befitted brides, and sent them off on their journey.

Who acts: old woman, presents · What happens: give, dress, befit, send off, journey · To what, where: girls, girl, presents, journey

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 (old woman, presents), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 morning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 morning	advmod
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 morning	amod
5	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	obl:unmarked
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gave	nsubj
9	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 gave	iobj
11	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 gave	obj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 breakfast	nmod:poss
13	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 girls	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dressed	punct
15	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 dressed	obj
17	as	as	ADP	_	19 brides	case
18	befitted	befit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 brides	amod
19	brides	bride	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dressed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sent	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sent	cc
22	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 gave	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sent	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	22 sent	compound:prt
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 journey	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 journey	nmod:poss
27	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sent	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the old woman	girls	girl		morning		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient girl=Theme
2	dress	past	the old woman not said here	presents = present				as befitted brides	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	befit	participle							tree rules
4	send off	past	the old woman not said here	presents = present		presents's journey			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	journey		presents = present						nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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