Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 17
"They're going to hang me," replied the Smith, and straightway related all that had happened to him.
Who acts: servants, Smith, that · What happens: go, hang, reply, happen · To what, where: Smith, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, Smith, that), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hang | mark |
| 6 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hang | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Smith | det |
| 12 | Smith | Smith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 related | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 related | cc |
| 15 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 related | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 happened | det:predet |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 happened | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 happened | aux |
| 20 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 related | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 happened | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | servants = servant | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hang in a quote | to-infinitive | servants = servant not said here | the Smith = smith | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Smith | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | that | husband | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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