Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 154
Very good," says he, "I'll wait till to-morrow!"
Who acts: family · What happens: say, wait · 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 (family), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 good | advmod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 good | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 good | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wait | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wait | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 wait | aux |
| 11 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 says | ccomp |
| 12 | till | till | ADP | _ | 15 morrow | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 morrow | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wait | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | wait | future | family | till morrow | vn exist-47.1 «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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