Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 14, sentence 99
Vasilísa trembled with fear, but remained standing, for she did not know how she could escape.
Who acts: Vasilísa, VASILÍSA · What happens: tremble, remain, stand, not know, escape · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilísa, VASILÍSA), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vasilísa | Vasilísa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 trembled | nsubj |
| 2 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 fear | case |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trembled | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 remained | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 remained | cc |
| 7 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 trembled | conj |
| 8 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 remained | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 know | mark |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 know | advmod |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 standing | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 escape | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 escape | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 escape | aux |
| 18 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 know | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tremble | past | Vasilísa | with fear | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remain | past | Vasilísa not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | Vasilísa not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not know | past · do-support | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | escape | could | VASILÍSA = vasilísa | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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