Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 108
A second time spake Koshchei and said, "I feel rather unwell."
Who acts: second time spake · What happens: say, feel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second time spake), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 spake | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 spake | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spake | compound |
| 4 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | Koshchei | Koshchei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spake | appos |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feel | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 feel | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 feel | nsubj |
| 11 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 13 unwell | advmod |
| 13 | unwell | unwell | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feel | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | a second time spake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | feel in a quote | present | a second time spake = speak | 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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