Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 163
Out of sight, accursed one!" cried the girls--and became lifeless forms.
Who acts: accursed one · What happens: accurs, cry, become · To what, where: girls, lifeless forms
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 (accursed one), 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 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 sight | case |
| 3 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sight | punct |
| 5 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girls | det |
| 11 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 15 | lifeless | lifeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 forms | amod |
| 16 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 became | xcomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accurs | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | accursed one | the girls | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | ||||
| 3 | become in a quote | past | accursed one not said here | lifeless forms | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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