Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 72
"Semiletka heard of this and could not restrain herself, but said that he had decided unfairly.
Who acts: Semiletka, Voyvode · What happens: hear, not restrain, say, decide · To what, where: Semiletka · 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 (Semiletka, Voyvode), 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 | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 2 | Semiletka | Semiletka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 heard | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 restrain | cc |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 restrain | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 restrain | advmod |
| 9 | restrain | restrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 heard | conj |
| 10 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 restrain | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 heard | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 decided | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 decided | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 decided | aux |
| 17 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | unfairly | unfairly | ADV | _ | 17 decided | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | past | Semiletka | of this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not restrain in a quote | could | Semiletka not said here | Semiletka | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer herself=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Semiletka not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | decide in a quote | past · perfect | Voyvode | unfairly property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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