Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 16
Meantime her stepmother is baking cakes and preparing for her funeral.
Who acts: Meantime stepmother · What happens: bake, prepare · To what, where: cakes
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 (Meantime stepmother), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stepmother | compound |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 baking | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 baking | aux |
| 5 | baking | bake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 baking | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 preparing | cc |
| 8 | preparing | prepare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 baking | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 funeral | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 funeral | nmod:poss |
| 11 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 preparing | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 baking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bake | present · progressive | girl's Meantime stepmother | cakes | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product | ||||
| 2 | prepare | gerund | girl's Meantime stepmother not said here | for girl's funeral | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for funeral=Beneficiary |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/40/16/