Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 32
Why, brother!" they call to him from the bank, "why are you so particular about your leggings?
Who acts: legs, you · What happens: call, be · To what, where: brother, log, bank · 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 (legs, you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 call | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 call | nsubj |
| 7 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 call | obl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bank | det |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 call | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 particular | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 particular | punct |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 particular | advmod |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 particular | cop |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 particular | nsubj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 particular | advmod |
| 19 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 call | advcl |
| 20 | about | about | ADP | _ | 22 leggings | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 leggings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | leggings | legging | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 particular | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | present | legs = leg | brother | log | the bank | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||
| 2 | is | present | you | about your leggings; particular 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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