Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 63
"Fair or foul!" says he, "if I bid her, Anastasia the Beautiful will kiss the crown of my head."
Who acts: crowd, Anastasia · What happens: say, bid, kiss, crown · To what, where: bout, crown, head · 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 (crowd, Anastasia), 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 Fair | punct |
| 2 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | ccomp |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 foul | cc |
| 4 | foul | foul | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Fair | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fair | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fair | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bid | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bid | punct |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 bid | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bid | nsubj |
| 13 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bid | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Anastasia | punct |
| 16 | Anastasia | Anastasia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 kiss | nsubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Beautiful | det |
| 18 | Beautiful | Beautiful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Anastasia | appos |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 kiss | aux |
| 20 | kiss | kiss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 crown | det |
| 22 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kiss | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crown | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | bid a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | crowd | bout | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kiss in a quote | future | Anastasia | the crown of my head | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | crown in a quote | my head | nom crown «communication transitive»: of=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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