Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 60
She went right through the book, but she didn't get at the meaning she wanted.
Who acts: Anna · What happens: go, not get, want · To what, where: book, meaning
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 book | advmod |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 book | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 book | det |
| 6 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 get | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 get | advmod |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | conj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 meaning | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 meaning | det |
| 15 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obl |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wanted | nsubj |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 meaning | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Anna | the book | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through book=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | not get | past · do-support | Anna | the meaning | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | want | past | Anna | the meaning not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot meaning=Theme |
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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