Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 1
"This piece of work is sure to turn out badly.
Who acts: piece · What happens: be, turn out
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece), 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 | _ | 7 sure | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 piece | det |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sure | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 work | case |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | cop |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 turn | mark |
| 9 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sure | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 turn | compound:prt |
| 11 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 turn | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this piece of work | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | turn out in a quote | to-infinitive | this piece of work not said here | badly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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