Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 122
"But how about the copeck?" asks the poor man.
Who acts: poor man · What happens: ask
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor man), 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 | _ | 9 asks | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 asks | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 asks | advmod |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 copeck | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 copeck | det |
| 6 | copeck | copeck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asks | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 copeck | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 copeck | punct |
| 9 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asks | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | the poor man | about the copeck | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about copeck=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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