Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 37

Before long the fair maiden's face began to fall away, and she grew weak and thin.

Who acts: Yaga · What happens: long, begin, fall away, grow · To what, where: face

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 (Yaga), 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	Before	before	SCONJ	_	2 long	mark
2	long	long	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 began	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 maiden	amod
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 face	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 maiden	case
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 long	obj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 fall	mark
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	away	away	ADV	_	10 fall	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grew	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grew	nsubj
15	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	conj
16	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grew	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 thin	cc
18	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 weak	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	long	gerund		the fair maiden's face		tree rules
2	begin	past				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	fall away	to-infinitive			away property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	grow	past	Yaga		weak property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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