Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 55
The girl disappeared from sight; nothing was left of her but her back hair.
Who acts: girl · What happens: disappear, leave · To what, where: sight, nothing
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disappeared | nsubj |
| 3 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disappeared | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 left | punct |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 left | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 disappeared | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 left | obj |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 hair | cc |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hair | compound |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 left | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | the girl | sight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from sight=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | nothing | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme her=Attribute |
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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