Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 177
She asked the same thing over and over again, but, getting no answer, went into the tents where stood the flasks and the bottles.
Who acts: NASTASIA · What happens: ask, get, go, stand · To what, where: same thing, answer, tents, flasks
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (NASTASIA), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 asked | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 again | cc |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 again | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 over | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 getting | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 asked | advcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 answer | det |
| 15 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 getting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 tents | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tents | det |
| 20 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 stood | advmod |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 went | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 flasks | det |
| 24 | flasks | flask | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stood | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bottles | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bottles | det |
| 27 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 flasks | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | NASTASIA | the same thing | over property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | |||
| 2 | get | gerund | NASTASIA not said here | no answer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer answer=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the tents | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tent=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | the flasks and the bottles | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flask=Stimulus |
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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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