Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 143
At that window the Princess happened to be sitting and dressing herself.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: happen, sit, dress · To what, where: window, princess
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 window | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 window | det |
| 3 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Princess | det |
| 5 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 sitting | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sitting | aux |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 happened | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dressing | cc |
| 11 | dressing | dress | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 sitting | conj |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 dressing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the Princess | that window | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at window=Location | ||||
| 2 | sit | to-infinitive · progressive | the Princess not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dress | gerund | the Princess not said here | princess | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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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