Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 40
Now this Tsarivna one day went down to the river to bathe, and plunged into the water without first crossing herself, whereupon the Evil Spirit took possession of her.
Who acts: Tsarivna day, Evil Spirit · What happens: go down, bathe, plunge, cross, take, possess · To what, where: water, Tsar, possession
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 (Tsarivna day, Evil Spirit), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 day | det |
| 3 | Tsarivna | Tsarivna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 day | compound |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 Tsarivna | flat |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 bathe | mark |
| 12 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 plunged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 plunged | cc |
| 15 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 plunged | obl |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 crossing | mark |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 crossing | advmod |
| 21 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 plunged | advcl |
| 22 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 crossing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 24 | whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 took | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Spirit | det |
| 26 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Spirit | compound |
| 27 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 29 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 took | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 possession | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | this Tsarivna day | now | to the river; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | bathe | to-infinitive | this Tsarivna day not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | plunge | participle | this Tsarivna day not said here | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | cross | gerund | this Tsarivna day not said here | Tsar | first property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 5 | take | past | the Evil Spirit | possession of Tsar | whereupon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | |||
| 6 | possess | Tsar | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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