Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 68
At the end of a while, he rose on one elbow, and screwed up a grin; and the third time he rose and screwed up a grin.
Who acts: Man · What happens: rise, screw up · To what, where: end, 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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 while | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 while | det |
| 6 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 rose | nsubj |
| 9 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 elbow | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 elbow | nummod |
| 12 | elbow | elbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rose | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 screwed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 screwed | cc |
| 15 | screwed | screw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 rose | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 screwed | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 grin | det |
| 18 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 screwed | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 rose | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rose | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 time | det |
| 22 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rose | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rose | nsubj |
| 25 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 rose | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 screwed | cc |
| 27 | screwed | screw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rose | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 screwed | compound:prt |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 grin | det |
| 30 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 screwed | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Man | at the end of a while | on one elbow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location | |||
| 2 | screw up | participle | Man not said here | a grin | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grin=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rise | past | Man | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | screw up | past | 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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