Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 102
"Why stumblest thou, sorry jade? scentest thou some ill?"
What happens: stumble, scent · To what, where: thou
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 stumblest | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 stumblest | advmod |
| 3 | stumblest | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 stumblest | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 jade | punct |
| 6 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 jade | amod |
| 7 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stumblest | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 scentest | punct |
| 9 | scentest | scent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stumblest | conj |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 scentest | obj |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 ill | det |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 scentest | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stumblest | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stumblest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumble in a quote | present | thou | sorry jade obl | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location thou=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scent in a quote | present | thou | some ill obl:unmarked | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Destination |
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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