Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 35
"Mammy," says the child, "they've pulled granny's skin off while you were away."
Who acts: Mammy, you · What happens: say, pull off, be · To what, where: child, daughter · 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 (Mammy, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mammy | punct |
| 2 | Mammy | Mammy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mammy | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mammy | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 pulled | aux |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 says | conj |
| 13 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skin | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 granny | case |
| 15 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | obj |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 pulled | compound:prt |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 away | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 away | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 away | cop |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 pulled | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Mammy | the child | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent child=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pull off in a quote | present · perfect · passive | daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | you | away 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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