Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 68
Now the devil "was standing behind her, pen and paper in hand.
Who acts: devil · What happens: stand · To what, where: pen
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 (devil), 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 | 3 devil | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 devil | det |
| 3 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | nsubj |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 devil | punct |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 standing | aux |
| 6 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 standing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pen | punct |
| 10 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 standing | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 paper | cc |
| 12 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pen | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pen | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand in a quote | past · progressive | the devil | pen in hand and paper | behind monarch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind she=Location |
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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