Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 89
But she is very careful not to ask for more than one thing at a time, and so the cock crows before her list of indispensable necessaries is exhausted.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: be, not ask, exhaust, list · To what, where: cock crows, indispensable necessaries
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 (stranger), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 careful | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 careful | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 careful | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 careful | advmod |
| 5 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 ask | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 careful | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 thing | case |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 12 one | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 more | fixed |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 thing | nummod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 exhausted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 exhausted | cc |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 exhausted | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 crows | det |
| 21 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crows | compound |
| 22 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 list | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 list | nmod:poss |
| 25 | list | list | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crows | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 necessaries | case |
| 27 | indispensable | indispensable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 necessaries | amod |
| 28 | necessaries | necessary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 list | nmod |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 30 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ask | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | stranger | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | time | for one thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | exhaust | present · passive | the cock crows before stranger's list of indispensable necessaries | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | list | stranger | indispensable necessaries | nom list «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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