Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 145
"What is the Birch creaking about?" thinks the Simpleton. "
Who acts: Birch, Simpleton · What happens: creak, think · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Birch, Simpleton), 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 | _ | 6 creaking | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 creaking | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 creaking | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Birch | det |
| 5 | Birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 creaking | nsubj |
| 6 | creaking | creak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 thinks | csubj |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 creaking | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 creaking | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 creaking | punct |
| 10 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Simpleton | det |
| 12 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thinks | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinks | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creak in a quote | present · progressive | the Birch | about property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | the Simpleton | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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