Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 41
For a long time she was afraid to acquaint them with her trouble, for a long time she held out, but at last her brothers talked her over and she told them everything without reserve.
Who acts: Yaga, last brothers · What happens: be, acquaint, hold out, talk over, tell, trouble · To what, where: things, long time, Yaga, everything · Speech: someone speaks here
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, last brothers), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 afraid | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 afraid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | cop |
| 7 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 acquaint | mark |
| 9 | acquaint | acquaint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 afraid | xcomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 acquaint | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 trouble | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 13 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 acquaint | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 17 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 acquaint | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 held | nsubj |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 held | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 talked | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 talked | cc |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 last | case |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 brothers | amod |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 talked | nsubj |
| 28 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 afraid | parataxis |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 talked | obj |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 talked | compound:prt |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 told | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 told | nsubj |
| 33 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 talked | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 told | iobj |
| 35 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 33 told | obj |
| 36 | without | without | ADP | _ | 37 reserve | case |
| 37 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 told | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Yaga | time | afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | acquaint speech: other | to-infinitive | Yaga not said here | things = thing | time | with Yaga's trouble | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||
| 3 | hold out | past | Yaga | a long time not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | ||||
| 4 | talk over | past | Yaga's last brothers | Yaga | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert | past | Yaga | everything | things = thing | without reserve | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient everything=Topic | ||
| 6 | trouble | Yaga | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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