Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 122
"We haven't got to learn our business!" answered the Demon. "
Who acts: We, Demon · What happens: not get, learn, answer · To what, where: business · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, Demon), 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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 got | advmod |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 answered | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 learn | mark |
| 7 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | xcomp |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 business | nmod:poss |
| 9 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 learn | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Demon | det |
| 14 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 Demon | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Demon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get in a quote | present · perfect | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | learn in a quote | to-infinitive | We not said here | our business | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Topic | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: express | past | the Demon | 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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