Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 64
And when the Head arrived, it cried, 'Maiden, open the door!'
Who acts: Head, reply · What happens: arrive, cry, open · To what, where: door
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 (Head, reply), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 cried | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Head | det |
| 4 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ' | punct |
| 10 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 8 cried | conj |
| 11 | Maiden | Maiden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 open | punct |
| 13 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 door | det |
| 15 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 open | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 open | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the Head | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | reply | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | open | infinitive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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