Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 82
She would fain have cried aloud, but she had not strength enough; only her teeth chattered.
Who acts: cold, teeth · What happens: cry, have, chatter · To what, where: strength
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 (cold, teeth), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fain | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fain | aux |
| 3 | fain | fain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | aux |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 fain | conj |
| 6 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 5 cried | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 had | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fain | parataxis |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 strength | advmod |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 had | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 chattered | punct |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 teeth | advmod |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 17 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 chattered | nsubj |
| 18 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fain | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present · perfect | aloud property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | past | cold | strength | enough property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient | |||
| 3 | chatter | past | cold's teeth | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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