Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 59

"Resting a bit!" cried the fox, as she gobbled up the hasty pudding.

Who acts: fox · What happens: rest, cry, gobble up · To what, where: bit, hasty pudding · 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 (fox), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Resting	punct
2	Resting	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 cried	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Resting	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Resting	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Resting	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 gobbled	punct
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 gobbled	mark
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gobbled	nsubj
13	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	conj
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 gobbled	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 pudding	det
16	hasty	hasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 pudding	amod
17	pudding	pudding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gobbled	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	rest in a quote	gerund		a bit	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bit=Theme
2	cry speech: express	past	the fox		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	gobble up	past	fox	the hasty pudding	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pudding=Theme

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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