Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 111
Confess, friend, whose breath have you stopped? whom have you pillaged?"
Who acts: you · What happens: confess, stop, pillage · To what, where: friend, breath
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 (you), 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 | Confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Confess | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 breath | nmod:poss |
| 6 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stopped | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 stopped | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 stopped | nsubj |
| 9 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 friend | acl:relcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 stopped | punct |
| 11 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 pillaged | obj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 pillaged | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 pillaged | nsubj |
| 14 | pillaged | pillage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 friend | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Confess | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Confess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | imperative | you not said here | friend | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stop | present · perfect · passive | breath | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pillage | present · perfect | you | friend | 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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