Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 100
"What have we been deciding? why choosing a Golova."
Who acts: we · What happens: decide, choose · To what, where: Golova
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 6 deciding | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 deciding | obj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deciding | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 deciding | nsubj |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 deciding | aux |
| 6 | deciding | decide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 deciding | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 choosing | advmod |
| 9 | choosing | choose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 deciding | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Golova | det |
| 11 | Golova | Golova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 choosing | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 deciding | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 deciding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | we | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | choose in a quote | gerund | we not said here | a Golova | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent golova=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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