Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 73
"How can I but stumble," replied the Steed, "when under the boarding sits Ivan Popyalof?"
Who acts: Steed · What happens: stumble, reply, sit · To what, where: Ivan, boarding · 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 (Steed), 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 | _ | 6 stumble | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 stumble | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 stumble | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 stumble | nsubj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 stumble | cc |
| 6 | stumble | stumble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 stumble | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 stumble | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Steed | det |
| 11 | Steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sits | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 sits | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 sits | advmod |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 17 boarding | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 boarding | det |
| 17 | boarding | boarding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sits | obl |
| 18 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 19 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sits | obj |
| 20 | Popyalof | Popyalof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Ivan | flat |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 Ivan | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumble in a quote | can | the Steed = steed | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | the Steed | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present | the Steed not said here | Ivan | the boarding | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent ivan=Theme under boarding=Location |
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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