Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 93
Whereupon, instead of asking for a number of things one after the other, she demands them all at once--"Stockings, garters, a petticoat, a dress, a comb, earrings, a mirror, soap, white paint and rouge, and everything which her stepsister had got."
Who acts: stranger, stepsister · What happens: ask, demand, get · To what, where: Stockings, clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
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, stepsister), 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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 asking | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 asking | punct |
| 3 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 asking | mark |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 instead | fixed |
| 5 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 number | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asking | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 things | case |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 things | flat |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 other | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 one | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 demands | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 demands | nsubj |
| 17 | demands | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 asking | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 demands | obj |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 once | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 demands | advmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 Stockings | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Stockings | punct |
| 24 | Stockings | stocking | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 asking | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 garters | punct |
| 26 | garters | garter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 Stockings | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 petticoat | punct |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 petticoat | det |
| 29 | petticoat | petticoat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Stockings | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dress | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 dress | det |
| 32 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 petticoat | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 comb | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 comb | det |
| 35 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 petticoat | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 earrings | punct |
| 37 | earrings | earring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 comb | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 mirror | punct |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 mirror | det |
| 40 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 petticoat | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 soap | punct |
| 42 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 petticoat | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 paint | punct |
| 44 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 paint | amod |
| 45 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Stockings | conj |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 rouge | cc |
| 47 | rouge | rouge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 paint | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 everything | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 everything | cc |
| 50 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 asking | ccomp |
| 51 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 got | obj |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 stepsister | nmod:poss |
| 53 | stepsister | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 got | nsubj |
| 54 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 55 got | aux |
| 55 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 50 everything | acl:relcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 50 everything | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 everything | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Stockings and garters and a petticoat and a dress and a comb and earrings and a mirror and soap and white paint and rouge | for a number of things; whereupon property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | present | stranger | clothes | once property | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Precondition | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | past · perfect | stranger's stepsister | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
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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