Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 60
"O Cricket!" he cried, "upon this mound sit and take snuff!
Who acts: waving · What happens: cry, sit, take · To what, where: Cricket, mound, snuff · 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 (waving), 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 | _ | 3 Cricket | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 Cricket | discourse |
| 3 | Cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Cricket | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Cricket | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sit | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 sit | punct |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 mound | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 mound | det |
| 12 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sit | obl |
| 13 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sit | conj |
| 16 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | waving | Cricket | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | infinitive | waving not said here | this mound | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon mound=Location | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | waving not said here | snuff | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snuff=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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