Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 124
Pretending to be merely getting a light, the Princess contrives to splash the seething liquid over the witch, who immediately falls dead.
Who acts: Princess, witch · What happens: pretend, get, contrive, splash, fall · To what, where: light, seething liquid
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, witch), 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 | Pretending | pretend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 contrives | csubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 getting | mark |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 getting | aux |
| 4 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 5 getting | advmod |
| 5 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Pretending | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 light | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 getting | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pretending | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 contrives | nsubj |
| 11 | contrives | contrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 splash | mark |
| 13 | splash | splash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 contrives | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 liquid | det |
| 15 | seething | seething | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 liquid | compound |
| 16 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 splash | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 witch | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 witch | det |
| 19 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 splash | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 falls | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 falls | nsubj |
| 22 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 23 falls | advmod |
| 23 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 witch | acl:relcl |
| 24 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 falls | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 contrives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive · progressive | a light | merely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | contrive | present | the Princess | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | splash | to-infinitive | the Princess not said here | the seething liquid | over the witch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent liquid=Theme over witch=Destination | |||
| 5 | fall | present | the witch | dead, immediately property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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