Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 43

She declared she had taken off her cross, but in reality she kept it on.

Who acts: body · What happens: declare, take off, keep on · To what, where: cross, reality

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (body), 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 declared	nsubj
2	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 taken	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 declared	xcomp
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 cross	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 cross	nmod:poss
8	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 kept	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 kept	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 reality	case
12	reality	reality	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 kept	obl
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kept	nsubj
14	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 declared	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 kept	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	14 kept	compound:prt
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	body			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	take off	past · perfect	body	body's cross		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme
3	keep on	past	body	reality	reality	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in reality=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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