Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 153
But the Simpleton fancied that it was asking for the ox on credit. "
Who acts: Simpleton, Birch · What happens: fancy, ask · To what, where: credit
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 (Simpleton, Birch), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 fancied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Simpleton | det |
| 3 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fancied | nsubj |
| 4 | fancied | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 asking | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asking | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asking | aux |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fancied | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ox | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ox | det |
| 11 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asking | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 credit | case |
| 13 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asking | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fancied | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fancied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | past | the Simpleton | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past · progressive | Birch | credit | for the ox | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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