Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 72
"Wherefore hast thou stumbled, O Steed! hast thou howled, O Hound! hast thou clamored, O Falcon?"
Who acts: thou, Hound · What happens: have, stumble, howl, clamor · To what, where: Steed, Hound, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Hound), 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 hast | punct |
| 2 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 hast | advmod |
| 3 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 Steed | punct |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 stumbled | nsubj |
| 5 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hast | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 7 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 8 Steed | discourse |
| 8 | Steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hast | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 Steed | punct |
| 10 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 howled | nsubj |
| 12 | howled | howl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hast | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Hound | punct |
| 14 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 15 Hound | discourse |
| 15 | Hound | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 howled | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 hast | punct |
| 17 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Hound | acl:relcl |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 hast | obj |
| 19 | clamored | clamor | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 hast | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Falcon | punct |
| 21 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Falcon | compound |
| 22 | Falcon | Falcon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hast | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 hast | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | wherefore property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stumble in a quote | participle | thou | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Steed | O Falcon obl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | howl in a quote | past | thou | Hound | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hound=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | Hound not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | clamor in a quote | participle | thou not said here | 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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