Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 78
"And saw what I was doing there?"
Who acts: step · What happens: see, do · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (step), 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 | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 saw | cc |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 doing | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 doing | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 doing | aux |
| 7 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 doing | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past · progressive | step | there | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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