Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 25
He took out the note and read it, and this is what was said in it:--
Who acts: Tartar, this · What happens: take out, read, be, say · To what, where: note · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tartar, this), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 took | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 note | det |
| 5 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 read | cc |
| 7 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 read | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 what | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 said | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | aux:pass |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | Tartar | the note | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent note=Theme | ||||
| 2 | read | infinitive | Tartar not said here | note | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past · passive | note | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: subject=Theme in it=Manner |
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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