Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 174
"Anyhow I'll eat this lion cub," says he; "I'm so hungry, I feel quite unwell!"
Who acts: I, queen bee · What happens: eat, say, be, feel · To what, where: lion cub, 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, queen bee), 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 | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 2 | Anyhow | anyhow | INTJ | _ | 5 eat | discourse |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 cub | det |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cub | compound |
| 8 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 hungry | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 hungry | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 hungry | nsubj |
| 16 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hungry | cop |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 hungry | advmod |
| 18 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 eat | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 feel | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 feel | nsubj |
| 21 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | conj |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 unwell | advmod |
| 23 | unwell | unwell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feel | xcomp |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | future | I | this lion cub | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | I not said here | Koshchei | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the queen bee = bee | hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feel in a quote | present | the queen bee = bee | unwell property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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