Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 141
At that hour the Princess was always sitting on the balcony, and looking out to see that the number of the cows were all right.
Who acts: Princess, number · What happens: sit, look out, see, be · To what, where: balcony · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, number), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sitting | aux |
| 7 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 sitting | advmod |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 balcony | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 balcony | det |
| 11 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looking | cc |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sitting | advcl |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 looking | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 looking | advcl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 right | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 number | det |
| 20 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 right | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 cows | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 cows | det |
| 23 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 number | nmod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 right | cop |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 right | advmod |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 see | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | the Princess | the balcony | hour | always property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on balcony=Location | ||
| 2 | look out | gerund | the Princess not said here | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the number of the cows | all, right property | tree rules |
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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