Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 50

At that moment she happened to be out on the balcony, and when she saw the newcomers, she sent out to know whence they came and what they wanted.

Who acts: Anna, newcomers · What happens: happen, be, see, send out, know, come · To what, where: balcony, newcomers · 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 (Anna, newcomers), 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 moment	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 happened	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 out	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 out	cop
8	out	out	ADV	_	5 happened	advcl
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 out	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 saw	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 happened	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 newcomers	det
18	newcomers	newcomer	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 saw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sent	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	nsubj
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 sent	compound:prt
23	to	to	PART	_	24 know	mark
24	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sent	advcl
25	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	27 came	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 know	ccomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 what	cc
29	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 came	conj
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wanted	nsubj
31	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 what	acl:relcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	Anna			moment		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	Anna not said here		the balcony		out property	tree rules
3	see	past	Anna	the newcomers				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer newcomer=Stimulus
4	send out	past	Anna					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	know	to-infinitive	Anna not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	come	past	newcomers = newcomer				whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	want	past	newcomers = newcomer					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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