Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 99
For it was illuminated by artificial means, and none but women had access to it.
Who acts: none · What happens: illuminate, mean, have · To what, where: light, access · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (none), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 illuminated | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 illuminated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 illuminated | aux:pass |
| 4 | illuminated | illuminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 means | nsubj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 artificial | case |
| 6 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 illuminated | obl |
| 7 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 13 had | nsubj |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 women | cc |
| 12 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 none | conj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 means | ccomp |
| 14 | access | access | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 had | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | illuminate | past · passive | light | by artificial | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | have | past | none | access | light | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent access=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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