Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 38

After playing a whole evening I used always to find all my fiddle-strings snapped.

Who acts: I, fiddle strings · What happens: play, use, find, snap · To what, where: whole evening · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fiddle strings), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 playing	mark
2	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 evening	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 evening	amod
5	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 playing	obj
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 used	nsubj
7	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 evening	acl:relcl
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 used	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 used	advcl
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 strings	det:predet
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 strings	nmod:poss
13	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 strings	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 fiddle	punct
15	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 snapped	nsubj
16	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 find	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 playing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	gerund			evening		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	past	I	a whole evening not said here		always property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evening=Patient
3	find	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	snap	past	my fiddle strings				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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