Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 11
And then the fair maiden proceeded to tell him about herself, who she was.
Who acts: fair maiden · What happens: proceed, tell, be · To what, where: fly · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair maiden), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 proceeded | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 proceeded | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 maiden | amod |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proceeded | nsubj |
| 6 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 proceeded | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 tell | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 was | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 was | nsubj |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 tell | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | the fair maiden | then | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | the fair maiden not said here | fly | about guest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about herself=Topic | |||
| 3 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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