Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 174
"Handsome, yes!" reply the guests, "but a heathen."
Who acts: guests · What happens: reply
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 (guests), 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 | _ | 2 Handsome | punct |
| 2 | Handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reply | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Handsome | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Handsome | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Handsome | punct |
| 7 | reply | reply | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 guests | det |
| 9 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reply | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 guests | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 guests | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 heathen | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 heathen | det |
| 14 | heathen | heathen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guests | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reply | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | imperative | the guests but a heathen | vn respond-113 «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: «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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