Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 13
Mightn't she be of use to me?"--and he replied:
Who acts: woman, Ivan · What happens: not be, reply · To what, where: me
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 (woman, Ivan), 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 | Might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 use | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 use | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 use | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 use | case |
| 6 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 use | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 replied | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | might | woman | me | of use | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | Ivan | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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