Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 80
As soon as he entered it, the demon rushed at him crying, "What do you mean, Russian? what have you come here for?
Who acts: Boyar, demon, you · What happens: enter, rush, cry, mean, come · To what, where: townspeople, Russian · 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, demon, you), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 entered | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 entered | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rushed | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 demon | det |
| 9 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rushed | nsubj |
| 10 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entered | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rushed | obl |
| 13 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 rushed | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 mean | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 mean | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 mean | obj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mean | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 mean | nsubj |
| 19 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 entered | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Russian | punct |
| 21 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mean | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 come | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 come | aux |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 come | nsubj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 come | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | Boyar | townspeople | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Destination | |||
| 2 | rush | past | the demon | at Boyar | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | the demon not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | you | Russian | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | present | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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