Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 39
"Hold your tongue, naughty child! you're talking nonsense!" cried the old crone's daughter; then she fetched a big cauldron, filled it with cold water, put it on the stove, and heated it till it boiled furiously.
Who acts: you, daughter, Mammy, child · What happens: hold, talk, cry, fetch, fill, put · To what, where: tongue, nonsense, big cauldron, cauldron, stove · 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 (you, daughter, Mammy, child), 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 Hold | punct |
| 2 | Hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cried | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hold | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 child | punct |
| 6 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tongue | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 talking | nsubj |
| 10 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 talking | aux |
| 11 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Hold | advcl |
| 12 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talking | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hold | punct |
| 15 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crone | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crone | amod |
| 18 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 18 crone | case |
| 20 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cried | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 fetched | punct |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 fetched | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fetched | nsubj |
| 24 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cauldron | det |
| 26 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cauldron | amod |
| 27 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 fetched | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 filled | punct |
| 29 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fetched | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 filled | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 water | case |
| 32 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 water | amod |
| 33 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 filled | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 filled | advcl |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 put | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 stove | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 stove | det |
| 39 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 heated | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 heated | cc |
| 42 | heated | heat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cried | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 heated | obj |
| 44 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 46 boiled | mark |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 boiled | nsubj |
| 46 | boiled | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 heated | advcl |
| 47 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 46 boiled | advmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold in a quote | infinitive | your tongue and naughty child | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | |||||
| 2 | talk in a quote | present · progressive | you | nonsense | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the old crone's daughter | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | fetch | past | Mammy | a big cauldron | then | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cauldron=Theme | |||
| 5 | fill | past | Mammy not said here | cauldron | with cold water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument | |||
| 6 | put | infinitive | Mammy not said here | cauldron | the stove | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on stove=Destination | |||
| 7 | heat | past | the old crone's daughter not said here | cauldron | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 8 | boil | past | child | furiously property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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