Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 98
So her parents shut her up in a building in which she never saw the light of day, nor the face of a man.
Who acts: parents, princess · What happens: shut up, not see, light · To what, where: princess, building, light, day
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 (parents, princess), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 shut | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 parents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shut | nsubj |
| 4 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shut | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 shut | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 building | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 building | det |
| 9 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shut | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 saw | obl |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 saw | advmod |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 building | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 light | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 face | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 22 face | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 face | det |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shut | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 face | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | past | princess's parents | princess | a building | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 2 | not see | past | princess | the light of day | a building | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | light | day | nom light «phenomenon 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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