Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 84
While waiting for the monster to appear, the saint laid his head on her knees, and she dressed his locks.
Who acts: saint, Perseus · What happens: wait, appear, lay, dress · To what, where: head, knees, locks
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (saint, Perseus), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 waiting | mark |
| 2 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 laid | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 monster | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 monster | det |
| 5 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waiting | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 appear | mark |
| 7 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 waiting | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 waiting | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 saint | det |
| 10 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laid | nsubj |
| 11 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 laid | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 knees | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 knees | nmod:poss |
| 16 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 laid | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dressed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dressed | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dressed | nsubj |
| 20 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 laid | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 locks | nmod:poss |
| 22 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 dressed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | gerund | the saint not said here | for the monster | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appear | to-infinitive | the saint not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | the saint | saint's head | Perseus's knees | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on knee=Destination | |||
| 4 | dress | past | Perseus | saint's locks | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lock=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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