Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 100
But one day, when her nurses and _Mamzeli_ had gone to a feast at the palace, she found a door unlocked, and made her way into the sunlight.
Who acts: nurses, Mamzeli · What happens: go, find, make · To what, where: feast, door, Mamzeli, sunlight
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurses, Mamzeli), 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 | _ | 13 gone | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 gone | advmod |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nurses | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gone | cc |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
| 10 | Mamzeli | Mamzeli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | nsubj |
| 11 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Mamzeli | flat |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | aux |
| 13 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 feast | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gone | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feast | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 found | nsubj |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gone | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 found | obj |
| 25 | unlocked | unlocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 found | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 found | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | obj |
| 30 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 sunlight | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sunlight | det |
| 33 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | princess's nurses | a feast at the palace | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | Mamzeli | a door | unlocked property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Topic | |||
| 3 | make | past | Mamzeli not said here | Mamzeli | the sunlight | way obl:unmarked | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent she=Material into sunlight=Product |
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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