Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 144
She took off her head, lathered it with soap, washed it with clean water, combed its hair, plaited its long back braid, and then put it back again in its proper place.
Who acts: princess · What happens: take off, lather, wash, comb, plait, put back · To what, where: head, hair, long back braid, braid, proper place
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lathered | punct |
| 7 | lathered | lather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lathered | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 soap | case |
| 10 | soap | soap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lathered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 washed | punct |
| 12 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 washed | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 washed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 combed | punct |
| 18 | combed | comb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 washed | conj |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 combed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 plaited | punct |
| 22 | plaited | plait | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 combed | conj |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 braid | nmod:poss |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 braid | amod |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 braid | compound |
| 26 | braid | braid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plaited | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 put | advmod |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | obj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 put | advmod |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 put | advmod |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 place | case |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 place | nmod:poss |
| 36 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 place | amod |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | princess | princess's head | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lather | past | princess not said here | head | with soap | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with soap=Instrument | |||
| 3 | wash | past | princess not said here | head | with clean water | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 4 | comb | past | princess not said here | water's hair | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 5 | plait | participle | princess not said here | hair's long back braid | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent braid=Patient | ||||
| 6 | put back | infinitive | princess not said here | braid | hair's proper place | then; again | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in place=Destination |
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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