Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 15
Then she began to conjure up all sorts of horrors.
Who acts: princess · What happens: begin, conjure up, sort · To what, where: sorts, horrors
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 conjure | mark |
| 5 | conjure | conjure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 conjure | compound:prt |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sorts | det |
| 8 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 conjure | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 horrors | case |
| 10 | horrors | horror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sorts | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | princess | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | conjure up | to-infinitive | princess not said here | all sorts of horrors | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Result | ||||
| 3 | sort | horrors | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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