Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 70
But when everything was ready, the youngest brother said to the others: "Now, brothers, who is going to lift this stone?"
Who acts: everything, youngest brother, brothers · What happens: be, say, go, lift · To what, where: others, stone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everything, youngest brother, brothers), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ready | advmod |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ready | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 brother | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 others | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 brothers | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 brothers | punct |
| 16 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 brothers | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brothers | punct |
| 18 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 going | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 going | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 going | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 going | aux |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 lift | mark |
| 24 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 going | xcomp |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 stone | det |
| 26 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lift | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 going | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | everything | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the youngest brother | the others | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | present · progressive | brothers | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lift in a quote | to-infinitive | brothers not said here | this stone | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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