Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 44

She took her seat and spun, but said prayers to herself all the while.

Who acts: body · What happens: take, spin, say · To what, where: seat, prayers, body · Speech: someone speaks here

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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 seat	nmod:poss
4	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 spun	cc
6	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 took	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
10	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 said	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 herself	case
12	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 said	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 while	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 while	det
15	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl:unmarked
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	take	past	body	body's seat			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme
2	spin	participle	body not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	body not said here	prayers	body	while	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent prayer=Topic to herself=Recipient

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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