Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 157
"Well, Simpleton! sold your ox?"
What happens: sell · To what, where: Simpleton
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: 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 sold | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 sold | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sold | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Simpleton | punct |
| 6 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ox | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sold | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 sold | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell in a quote | participle | Simpleton | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=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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