Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 52
But Vanyusha wanted very much to have a look at the Princess Helena the Fair.
Who acts: Vanyusha · What happens: want, have · To what, where: look, Princess Helena
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vanyusha), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 wanted | cc |
| 2 | Vanyusha | Vanyusha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wanted | nsubj |
| 3 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 much | advmod |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 3 wanted | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 have | mark |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wanted | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 look | det |
| 9 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 Helena | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Helena | det |
| 12 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Helena | compound |
| 13 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 look | nmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fair | det |
| 15 | Fair | Fair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Helena | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | Vanyusha | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | Vanyusha not said here | a look | the Princess Helena | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=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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