Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 20
Of a contradictory woman the Russian peasants affirm that, "If you say 'shaved' she'll say 'cut.'"
Who acts: Russian peasants, you, peasant · What happens: affirm, say, shave · To what, where: cut · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Russian peasants, you, peasant), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 woman | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 3 | contradictory | contradictory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 woman | compound |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 affirm | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 peasants | det |
| 6 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peasants | amod |
| 7 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 affirm | nsubj |
| 8 | affirm | affirm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 say | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 that | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 that | punct |
| 12 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 say | advcl |
| 15 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 shaved | punct |
| 16 | shaved | shave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 say | ccomp |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 shaved | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 say | nsubj |
| 19 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 say | aux |
| 20 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 affirm | ccomp |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 cut | punct |
| 22 | cut | cut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 say | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 affirm | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 affirm | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 affirm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affirm | present | the Russian peasants | of a contradictory woman | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shave in a quote | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | future | peasant | cut | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cut=Topic |
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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