Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 45
"Now then, wife," perhaps he would say, "I feel quite sorry for you; don't go toiling and moiling, and don't go out to the hay cutting."
Who acts: wife · What happens: say, feel, not go, toil, moil, not go out · 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 (wife), 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 | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 say | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 say | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 8 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 11 say | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 say | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | aux |
| 11 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 feel | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 feel | nsubj |
| 15 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 say | ccomp |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 sorry | advmod |
| 17 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feel | xcomp |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 sorry | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 21 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 go | advmod |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 say | ccomp |
| 24 | toiling | toil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 go | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 moiling | cc |
| 26 | moiling | moil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 toiling | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 go | cc |
| 29 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 go | aux |
| 30 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 go | advmod |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 say | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADV | _ | 31 go | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 cutting | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 cutting | det |
| 35 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cutting | compound |
| 36 | cutting | cutting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 go | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | wife | then | perhaps property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | feel in a quote | present | wife | sorry property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not go in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | toil in a quote | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | moil in a quote | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | not go out in a quote | infinitive · do-support | wife not said here | to the hay cutting; out property | vn interact-36.6 «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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