Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 142
When the woman returned, and found her meal had been stolen, she did not lose her temper, but only said, "May the stomach of the eater be cooled!"
Who acts: woman · What happens: return, find, steal, not lose, say, cool · To what, where: meal, temper, stomach · 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 (woman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 woman | det |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 meal | nmod:poss |
| 9 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stolen | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 stolen | aux:pass |
| 12 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 found | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lose | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lose | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 lose | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 lose | advmod |
| 17 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 found | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 temper | nmod:poss |
| 19 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lose | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 said | advmod |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 found | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 May | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 May | punct |
| 26 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 stomach | det |
| 28 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cooled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 eater | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 eater | det |
| 31 | eater | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stomach | nmod |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 cooled | aux:pass |
| 33 | cooled | cool | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 said | conj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 33 cooled | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 cooled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | steal | past · perfect · passive | woman's meal | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not lose | past · do-support | woman | woman's temper | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | say speech: express | participle | may | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | cool in a quote | infinitive · passive | the stomach of the eater | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | temper | woman | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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