Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 84

Then she was so frightened that she tried to hide herself, and she would do nothing for the Head, which had to dish up its own dinner, and eat it by itself.

Who acts: stepmother · What happens: be, try, hide, do, have up, eat · To what, where: stepmother, nothing, dish, dinner

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 frightened	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 frightened	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 tried	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 tried	nsubj
8	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	advcl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hide	mark
10	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 tried	xcomp
11	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 hide	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 do	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 frightened	parataxis
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 do	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 Head	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Head	det
20	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 had	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 do	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 dish	mark
25	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
26	up	up	ADP	_	23 had	compound:prt
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dinner	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dinner	amod
29	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eat	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 eat	cc
32	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	parataxis
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 eat	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 itself	case
35	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 eat	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	stepmother		then	frightened property	tree rules
2	try	past	stepmother				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	hide not said to happen	to-infinitive	stepmother not said here	stepmother			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
4	do	would	stepmother	nothing		for the Head	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality
5	have up	past		dish			tree rules
6	eat	present		dinner		by dish	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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