Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 105

When the veil was lifted, she cried in astonishment "Can such beauty be?" and determined to fly on the _Zhar-Ptitsa_ to the original of the picture.

Who acts: Mamzeli · What happens: lift, cry, fly · To what, where: veil, such beauty, Zhar

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 (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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 lifted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 veil	det
3	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lifted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lifted	aux:pass
5	lifted	lift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cried	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lifted	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 astonishment	case
10	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Can	obl
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 astonishment	punct
12	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	advcl
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beauty	amod
14	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cried	obj
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 ?	cop
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 beauty	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 beauty	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 determined	cc
19	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 beauty	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 fly	mark
21	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 determined	xcomp
22	on	on	ADP	_	25 Zhar	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Zhar	det
24	_	_	PUNCT	_	25 Zhar	punct
25	Zhar	Zhar	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 fly	obl
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Ptitsa	punct
27	Ptitsa	Ptitsa	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Zhar	conj
28	_	_	PUNCT	_	31 original	punct
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 original	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 original	det
31	original	original	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Zhar	appos
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 picture	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 picture	det
34	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 original	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	lift	past · passive		the veil		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	Mamzeli	such beauty		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Topic
3	fly	to-infinitive	Mamzeli not said here		the Zhar and Ptitsa	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on zhar=Location

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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