Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 44
Well, our girls grew and grew, until they grew up and were old enough to be married.
Who acts: girls, stepsisters · What happens: grow, grow up, be, marry
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 (girls, stepsisters), 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 grew | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 girls | nmod:poss |
| 4 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 grew | cc |
| 7 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 grew | punct |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 grew | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grew | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 grew | compound:prt |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 old | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 old | cop |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | conj |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 old | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 married | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 married | aux:pass |
| 19 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 old | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | our girls | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | our girls not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow up | past | stepsisters = stepsister | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | stepsisters = stepsister not said here | enough, old property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | stepsisters = stepsister not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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