Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 95
Frost began cracking more than ever, and more loudly did he snap his fingers, and to the maiden he said:--
Who acts: Frost, Meantime · What happens: begin, crack, snap, say · To what, where: more, fingers, maiden · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Meantime), 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 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | cracking | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 began | xcomp |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 cracking | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 ever | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 more | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 snap | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 snap | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 loudly | advmod |
| 10 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 13 snap | advmod |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 snap | aux |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 snap | nsubj |
| 13 | snap | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 snap | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 maiden | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maiden | det |
| 20 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | parataxis |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 24 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Frost | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | crack | gerund | Frost not said here | more | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme | ||||
| 3 | snap | past · do-support | Meantime | Meantime's fingers | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Meantime | the maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to maiden=Recipient |
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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