Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 120

She leaves the room in search of the means of rekindling it, sees a glimmer in the distance, and sets off with a lantern in search of it.

Who acts: princess, the · What happens: leave, mean, rekindle, see, set off, search · To what, where: room, search, glimmer

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 (princess, the), 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 leaves	nsubj
2	leaves	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 room	det
4	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaves	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 search	case
6	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 room	nmod
7	of	of	SCONJ	_	9 means	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 room	advcl
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 rekindling	mark
11	rekindling	rekindle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 means	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rekindling	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sees	punct
14	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leaves	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 glimmer	det
16	glimmer	glimmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sees	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 distance	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 distance	det
19	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 glimmer	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sets	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sets	cc
22	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 leaves	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 sets	compound:prt
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 lantern	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 lantern	det
26	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sets	obl
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 search	case
28	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lantern	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 search	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leaves	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present	princess	the room	search		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent room=Theme in search=Location
2	mean	present	the				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	rekindle	gerund	the not said here	room			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	see	present	princess not said here	a glimmer		in the distance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glimmer=Stimulus
5	set off	present	princess not said here			with a lantern in search of search	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	search			search			nom search «act 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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