Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 145
On being questioned, she explains that she has come "from the earthly realm into the heavenly," and promises not to repeat her visit if she is dismissed in peace.
Who acts: third · What happens: question, explain, come, promise, not repeat, dismiss · To what, where: earthly realm, visit, third, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 questioned | mark |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 questioned | aux:pass |
| 3 | questioned | question | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 explains | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 questioned | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 explains | nsubj |
| 6 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 explains | ccomp |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 realm | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 realm | det |
| 14 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 realm | amod |
| 15 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 heavenly | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 heavenly | det |
| 18 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 come | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 heavenly | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 heavenly | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 promises | cc |
| 22 | promises | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 heavenly | conj |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 repeat | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 repeat | mark |
| 25 | repeat | repeat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 promises | xcomp |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 visit | nmod:poss |
| 27 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 repeat | obj |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 dismissed | mark |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dismissed | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 dismissed | aux:pass |
| 31 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 repeat | advcl |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 peace | case |
| 33 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dismissed | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | gerund · passive | third not said here | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | present | third | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | present · perfect | third | the earthly realm | into the heavenly | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from realm=Initial_Location into heavenly=Destination | |||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | present | third not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not repeat not said to happen | to-infinitive | third not said here | third's visit | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | dismiss a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | third | peace | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | visit | third | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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