Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 33

They used to be out hunting all day, but their adopted sister was always at home.

Who acts: sufferers, adopted sister · What happens: use, hunt, adopt, be · To what, where: home

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sufferers, adopted sister), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 hunting	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hunting	aux
5	out	out	ADV	_	6 hunting	advmod
6	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 used	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hunting	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 home	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 home	cc
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 sister	nmod:poss
12	adopted	adopt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 sister	amod
13	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 home	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 home	cop
15	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 home	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 home	case
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	sufferers = sufferer				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hunt	to-infinitive · progressive	sufferers = sufferer not said here		day	out property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	adopt	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	sufferers's adopted sister	home		always 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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