Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 8, sentence 169
Page 179--woman amended to women--"... where two old women were sewing ..."
Who acts: two old women · What happens: amend, sew · To what, where: woman
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 (two old women), 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 | 16 sewing | compound |
| 2 | 179 | 179 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 woman | punct |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | appos |
| 5 | amended | amend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 woman | acl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 women | case |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 amended | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 10 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 16 sewing | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 sewing | advmod |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 women | nummod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 women | amod |
| 14 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 sewing | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sewing | aux |
| 16 | sewing | sew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 17 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 16 sewing | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sewing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | amend | participle | woman not said here | to women | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sew in a quote | past · progressive | two old women | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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