Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 166
Page 177--servants-maids amended to servant-maids--"... the bereaved mother sends three servant-maids ..."
Who acts: bereaved mother · What happens: amend, servant, send · To what, where: maids, three servant maids
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bereaved mother), 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sends | compound |
| 2 | 177 | 177 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 servants | punct |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Page | conj |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 maids | punct |
| 6 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 servants | conj |
| 7 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 maids | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 servant | mark |
| 9 | servant | servant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 amended | xcomp |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 maids | punct |
| 11 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 servant | obj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 14 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 18 sends | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mother | det |
| 16 | bereaved | bereaved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 mother | amod |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sends | nsubj |
| 18 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 maids | nummod |
| 20 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 maids | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 servant | punct |
| 22 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 sends | obj |
| 23 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 18 sends | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | participle | maids not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | servant | to-infinitive | maids | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | send in a quote | present | the bereaved mother | three servant maids | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=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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