Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 63
"What art thou stumbling for, sorry jade? dost thou scent any ill?"
What happens: stumble, do · To what, where: thou
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. 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 art | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | 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 art | obj |
| 5 | stumbling | stumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 art | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 jade | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 for | punct |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 jade | amod |
| 9 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stumbling | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 dost | punct |
| 11 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 art | conj |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 dost | obj |
| 13 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dost | obj |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 ill | det |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dost | advcl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stumble in a quote | gerund | for sorry jade | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | thou | 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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