Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 10
There she sits, "trembling and silently offering up a prayer."
Who acts: stepdaughter · What happens: sit, tremble, offer up · To what, where: prayer
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepdaughter), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sits | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sits | nsubj |
| 3 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sits | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 trembling | punct |
| 6 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sits | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 offering | cc |
| 8 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 9 offering | advmod |
| 9 | offering | offer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 trembling | conj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 offering | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 prayer | det |
| 12 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 offering | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sits | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | stepdaughter | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tremble in a quote | gerund | stepdaughter not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | offer up in a quote | gerund | stepdaughter not said here | a prayer | silently property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme |
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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