Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 92
The girl, following its instructions, gets in at one ear and out of the other, and finds all her tasks performed, all her difficulties removed.
Who acts: girl, tasks, difficulties, Skazkas · What happens: follow, get in, find, perform, remove, instruct · To what, where: instructions, one ear · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, tasks, difficulties, Skazkas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 following | punct |
| 4 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 girl | acl |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 6 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 following | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 girl | punct |
| 8 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 gets | compound:prt |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 ear | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 ear | nummod |
| 12 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gets | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 other | cc |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 other | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 other | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ear | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 finds | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 finds | cc |
| 20 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gets | conj |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 performed | advmod |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tasks | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 performed | nsubj |
| 24 | performed | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 finds | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 removed | punct |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 difficulties | det:predet |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 difficulties | nmod:poss |
| 28 | difficulties | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 removed | nsubj |
| 29 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 performed | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | the girl not said here | Skazkas's instructions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get in | present | the girl | one ear | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | find | present | the girl not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perform | past | girl's tasks | all property | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | remove | past | girl's difficulties | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | instruct | Skazkas | nom instruction «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | task | girl | nom task «act 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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