Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 217
She leaped into the first vat, and came out an old woman; she leaped into the second vat, and came out a young maid; but when she leaped out of the third vat, she was so handsome and goodly that no pen can describe it, and no tale can tell of it.
Who acts: NASTASIA, old woman, young maid, pen, tale · What happens: leap, come out, leap out, be, describe, tell · To what, where: first vat, second vat, third vat, MAID · Speech: someone speaks here
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, old woman, young maid, pen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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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 leaped | nsubj |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 vat | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 vat | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 vat | amod |
| 6 | vat | vat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leaped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 leaped | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leaped | nsubj |
| 16 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | parataxis |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 vat | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 vat | det |
| 19 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 vat | amod |
| 20 | vat | vat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leaped | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 leaped | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 maid | det |
| 26 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 maid | amod |
| 27 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 leaped | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 leaped | cc |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 leaped | advmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 leaped | nsubj |
| 32 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 vat | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 vat | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 vat | det |
| 36 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 vat | amod |
| 37 | vat | vat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 leaped | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 handsome | punct |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 handsome | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 handsome | cop |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 handsome | advmod |
| 42 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 leaped | parataxis |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 goodly | cc |
| 44 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 handsome | conj |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 49 describe | mark |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 pen | det |
| 47 | pen | pen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 describe | nsubj |
| 48 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 describe | aux |
| 49 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 goodly | advcl |
| 50 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 describe | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 tell | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 tell | cc |
| 53 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 54 tale | det |
| 54 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 tell | nsubj |
| 55 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 tell | aux |
| 56 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 leaped | conj |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 it | case |
| 58 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 tell | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | NASTASIA | the first vat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into vat=Destination | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | a old woman | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | leap | past | NASTASIA | the second vat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into vat=Destination | ||||
| 4 | come out | past | a young maid | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | leap out | past | NASTASIA | the third vat | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vat=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | is | past | NASTASIA | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | NASTASIA not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | describe | can | no pen | MAID | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 9 | tell speech: assert | can | no tale | of pen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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