Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 16
But in spite of all that she did, he went on reading and reading, and never gave a look round.
Who acts: princess, lid · What happens: do, go, not give · To what, where: spite, look
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, lid), 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 | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 spite | case |
| 3 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 spite | nmod |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 all | obj |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spite | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 spite | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 reading | case |
| 13 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reading | cc |
| 15 | reading | reading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reading | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gave | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 gave | advmod |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 look | det |
| 21 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 22 | round | round | ADV | _ | 19 gave | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | princess | spite of all not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spite=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | past | lid | spite of all | on reading and reading | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in spite=Location | |||
| 3 | not give | past | lid not said here | a look | round property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme |
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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