Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 170
"I'll get a bit of honeycomb," says he.
Who acts: I · What happens: get, say · To what, where: bit, Koshchei · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (I), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 honeycomb | case |
| 8 | honeycomb | honeycomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bit | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | future | I | a bit of honeycomb | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Koshchei | 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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