Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 1
"What's the meaning of this?" thinks the old woman; "suppose I keep awake to-night; may be I shall find out."
Who acts: meaning · What happens: be, think, suppose, keep · To what, where: meaning, old woman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meaning), 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 meaning | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 meaning | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 meaning | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 meaning | det |
| 5 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thinks | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 meaning | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 meaning | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 meaning | punct |
| 10 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thinks | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 suppose | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 suppose | punct |
| 16 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thinks | conj |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 keep | nsubj |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 suppose | ccomp |
| 19 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 keep | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 awake | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 find | cop |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 find | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 thinks | ccomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 find | compound:prt |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the meaning | of this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | the meaning | the old woman | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent woman=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | suppose in a quote | infinitive | the meaning not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | present | the meaning = meaning | awake property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | shall | the meaning = meaning | find 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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