Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 65
She sat to watch the dead man, and she was sewing; in the middle of night he rose up, and screwed up a grin. '
Who acts: sister, Man · What happens: sit, watch, sew, rise up, screw up · To what, where: dead man, middle, grin
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 (sister, Man), 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 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 watch | mark |
| 4 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sat | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 watch | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sewing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sewing | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sewing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sewing | aux |
| 12 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sat | advcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 rose | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 middle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 middle | det |
| 16 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rose | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 middle | nmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rose | nsubj |
| 20 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 rose | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 screwed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 screwed | cc |
| 24 | screwed | screw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 rose | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 screwed | compound:prt |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 grin | det |
| 27 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 screwed | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | sister | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | watch | to-infinitive | sister not said here | the dead man | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sew | past · progressive | sister | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | rise up | past | Man | the middle of night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | ||||
| 5 | screw up | participle | Man not said here | a grin | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grin=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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