Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 22
It eats the cake, but it repeats its offensive observations, until the stepdaughter appears in all her glory.
Who acts: mistress, stepdaughter · What happens: eat, repeat, appear, observe, glory · To what, where: cake, offensive observations, glory
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 (mistress, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 eats | nsubj |
| 2 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cake | det |
| 4 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eats | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeats | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 repeats | cc |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 repeats | nsubj |
| 8 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 eats | parataxis |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 observations | nmod:poss |
| 10 | offensive | offensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 observations | amod |
| 11 | observations | observation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 repeats | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appears | punct |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 appears | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stepdaughter | det |
| 15 | stepdaughter | stepdaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appears | nsubj |
| 16 | appears | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 repeats | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 glory | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 glory | det:predet |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 glory | nmod:poss |
| 20 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 appears | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 eats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | mistress | the cake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient | ||||
| 2 | repeat | present | mistress | mistress's offensive observations | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent observation=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | appear | present | the stepdaughter | stepdaughter's glory | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in glory=Location | ||||
| 4 | observe | mistress | nom observation «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | glory | stepdaughter | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=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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