Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 56

The bear growls out "Oh, dear granny of mine! how I grieve for thee!" "

Who acts: bear, man · What happens: growl out, grieve

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 (bear, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 growls	nsubj
3	growls	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 growls	compound:prt
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 granny	punct
6	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	9 granny	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Oh	punct
8	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 granny	amod
9	granny	granny	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 growls	parataxis
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 mine	case
11	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 granny	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 granny	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 grieve	advmod
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 grieve	nsubj
15	grieve	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 growls	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 thee	case
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	15 grieve	obl
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 grieve	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 grieve	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 grieve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	growl out	present	the bear						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grieve in a quote	present	man					for thee	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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