Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 109

Now she was so poor that she had nothing in the house but a crust of bread and a handful of flour.

Who acts: Widow · What happens: be, have · To what, where: nothing, house

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Widow), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 poor	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 poor	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 poor	advmod
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 had	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 poor	advcl
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 had	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	nmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 crust	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 crust	det
15	crust	crust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 bread	case
17	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crust	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 handful	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 handful	det
20	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nothing	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 flour	case
22	flour	flour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 handful	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Widow				now	poor property	tree rules
2	have	past	Widow	nothing		the house			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

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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