Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 3
In a certain village there was a girl who was lazy and slothful, hated working but would gossip and chatter away like anything.
Who acts: girl · What happens: be, hate, work, gossip, chatter away · To what, where: girl, certain village
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 (girl), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 village | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 village | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 village | amod |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 girl | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 girl | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lazy | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lazy | cop |
| 11 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 girl | acl:relcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slothful | cc |
| 13 | slothful | slothful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lazy | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hated | punct |
| 15 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 lazy | conj |
| 16 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 hated | xcomp |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 gossip | cc |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 gossip | aux |
| 19 | gossip | gossip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 working | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 chatter | cc |
| 21 | chatter | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 gossip | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 chatter | advmod |
| 23 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 anything | case |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 21 chatter | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 girl | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a girl | a certain village | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a girl | lazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | a girl not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hate | participle | a girl not said here | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | work not said to happen | gerund | a girl not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | gossip speech: other | would | a girl not said here | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | chatter away | infinitive | a girl not said here | like anything; away property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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