Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 116

"How am I likely to be cheerful?

Who acts: 21 · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (21), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 likely	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 likely	advmod
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 likely	cop
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 likely	nsubj
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 cheerful	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 cheerful	cop
8	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 likely	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 likely	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	21					likely property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	to-infinitive	21 not said here					cheerful property	tree rules

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 Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (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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