Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 59
Princess Anna the Fair took her magic-book, and began turning over its leaves and examining the answers of riddles.
Who acts: Princess Anna · What happens: take, begin, turn, examine, answer · To what, where: magic book, leaves, answers, riddles
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 Anna), 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 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Anna | compound |
| 2 | Anna | Anna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fair | det |
| 4 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Anna | appos |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 book | nmod:poss |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 book | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 magic | punct |
| 9 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 began | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 began | cc |
| 12 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 13 | turning | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 began | xcomp |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 leaves | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 16 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turning | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 examining | cc |
| 18 | examining | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 turning | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 answers | det |
| 20 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 examining | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 riddles | case |
| 22 | riddles | riddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 answers | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Princess Anna | Anna's magic book | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Princess Anna not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | Princess Anna not said here | book's leaves | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over leaf=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | examine | gerund | Princess Anna not said here | the answers of riddles | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Theme | ||||
| 5 | answer | riddles | nom answer «communication transitive»: 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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