Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 10

"Was your Diachok dark-haired?"

Who acts: Diachok · What happens: be

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 (Diachok), 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 haired	punct
2	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 haired	cop
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 Diachok	nmod:poss
4	Diachok	Diachok	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 haired	nsubj
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 haired	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct
7	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 haired	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 haired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	your Diachok					haired property	tree rules

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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