Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 85
"Peasant," cries the Demon, "wherever can I take refuge?"
Who acts: Peasant · What happens: cry, take · To what, where: Demon, refuge · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peasant | punct |
| 2 | Peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cries | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peasant | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Peasant | punct |
| 5 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Demon | det |
| 7 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cries | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 10 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 take | advmod |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cries | conj |
| 14 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cries | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cries | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | present | Peasant | the Demon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | can | Peasant | refuge | wherever property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=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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