Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 23, sentence 21
When she had sharpened her teeth, she ran into the room, but there was not a single soul to be seen there, even the mouselet had crept back into its hole.
Who acts: Sister, single soul · What happens: sharpen, run, be, see, creep back · To what, where: Sister, room, mouselet, hole
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sister, single soul), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sharpened | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sharpened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sharpened | aux |
| 4 | sharpened | sharpen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ran | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sharpened | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sharpened | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 was | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 was | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 was | expl |
| 16 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 soul | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 soul | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 soul | amod |
| 20 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 was | nsubj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 seen | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seen | aux:pass |
| 23 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 soul | acl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 seen | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 crept | punct |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 mouselet | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mouselet | det |
| 28 | mouselet | mouselet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 crept | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 crept | aux |
| 30 | crept | creep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 seen | conj |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 crept | advmod |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 hole | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 hole | nmod:poss |
| 34 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 crept | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sharpen | past · perfect · passive | Sister | Sister's teeth obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run | past | Sister | into the room result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into room=Result | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a single soul | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive · passive | a single soul not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | creep back | past · perfect · passive | the mouselet | mouselet's hole | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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