Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 198
All of a sudden they run up against a Diachok,[64] and says he:--
Who acts: brothers · What happens: run up, say · To what, where: mind · 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 (brothers), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sudden | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sudden | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 run | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 run | nsubj |
| 6 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 run | compound:prt |
| 8 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 Diachok | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Diachok | det |
| 10 | Diachok | Diachok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 run | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 64 | punct |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 64 | punct |
| 13 | 64 | 64 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 Diachok | appos |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 64 | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 says | cc |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 run | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 says | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 All | punct |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 1 All | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run up | present | brothers = brother | of a sudden; against a Diachok | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of sudden=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | brothers = brother not said here | mind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=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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