Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 46
She took off her cross, leaped into the ice-hole--and found herself in a vast hall.
Who acts: wife · What happens: take off, leap, find · To what, where: cross, ice hole, wife, vast hall
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cross | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 leaped | punct |
| 7 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cross | acl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 hole | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hole | det |
| 10 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hole | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 ice | punct |
| 12 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leaped | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 found | cc |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 found | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hall | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 19 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hall | amod |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | past | wife | wife's cross | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leap | participle | wife's cross not said here | the ice hole | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hole=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | past | wife not said here | wife | a vast hall | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Topic |
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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