Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 4
Well, she took it into her head to invite the other girls to a spinning party.
Who acts: girl · What happens: take, invite, spin · To what, where: village, head, other girls
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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 invite | mark |
| 10 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girls | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girls | amod |
| 13 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 invite | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 party | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 party | det |
| 16 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 party | amod |
| 17 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 invite | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | girl | village | girl's head | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into head=Destination | |||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive | girl not said here | the other girls | to a spinning party | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Recipient | |||
| 3 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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