Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 13
That was just her sort of notion: to do nothing herself, but to get others to do it for her.
Who acts: That, others · What happens: be, do, get · To what, where: sort, nothing, others, notion
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, others), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 sort | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sort | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sort | advmod |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sort | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 notion | case |
| 7 | notion | notion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sort | nmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 sort | parataxis |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 nothing | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 get | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 get | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | parataxis |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 get | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 get | xcomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | girl's sort | of notion | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | others | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | others not said here | notion | for girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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