Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 79
Moreover, he gave orders that all the coachmen should crack their whips and cry at the top of their voices: "The Bad Wife has come! the Bad Wife has come!" and then he went into the inner room.
Who acts: Boyar, coachmen, Bad Wife · What happens: give, crack, cry, come, go · To what, where: orders, top, inner room · 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 (Boyar, coachmen, Bad 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 | Moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 4 gave | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Moreover | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 crack | obj |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 coachmen | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 coachmen | det |
| 9 | coachmen | coachman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crack | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 crack | aux |
| 11 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 orders | acl:relcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 whips | nmod:poss |
| 13 | whips | whip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 crack | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cry | cc |
| 15 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 crack | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 top | det |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cry | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 voices | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 voices | nmod:poss |
| 21 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 top | nmod |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 come | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Wife | det |
| 25 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Wife | amod |
| 26 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 come | nsubj |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gave | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 come | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Wife | det |
| 31 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Wife | amod |
| 32 | Wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 come | nsubj |
| 33 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 come | aux |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 come | parataxis |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 come | punct |
| 36 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 come | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 went | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 went | advmod |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 went | nsubj |
| 40 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | conj |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 44 room | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 room | det |
| 43 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 room | amod |
| 44 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 went | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Boyar | orders | moreover property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | crack | should | all coachmen | orders | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Patient whip=Result | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | infinitive | all coachmen not said here | the top of coachmen's voices | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location | ||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the Bad Wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the Bad Wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go | past | Boyar | the inner room | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location |
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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