Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 81
All of a sudden appeared a pike and said, "Don't hurt my little one, Prince Ivan; I'll do you a good turn."
Who acts: All · What happens: appear, say, not hurt, do · To what, where: pike, little one, good turn, you · 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 (All), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sudden | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sudden | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 All | nmod |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pike | det |
| 7 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurt | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hurt | punct |
| 12 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 hurt | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 hurt | advmod |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 one | nmod:poss |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hurt | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ivan | punct |
| 19 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Ivan | compound |
| 20 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 one | appos |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 appeared | parataxis |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 do | iobj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 turn | det |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 turn | amod |
| 28 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | All | a pike | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | All not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not hurt in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my little one | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | future | All | a good turn | you | 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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