Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 54
Meeting a bear, he cries, "Wail a bit, Bear, for my old woman!
Who acts: man · What happens: meet, cry, wail · To what, where: bear, bit · 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 (man), 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 | Meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cries | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bear | det |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meeting | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meeting | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cries | nsubj |
| 6 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wail | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Wail | punct |
| 9 | Wail | wail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cries | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bit | det |
| 11 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Wail | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Bear | punct |
| 13 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bit | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 woman | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 woman | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 woman | nmod:poss |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Wail | advcl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 cries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | gerund | man not said here | a bear | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wail in a quote | infinitive | man not said here | a bit and Bear | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bit=Theme |
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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