Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 1
"What am I to call out when I want you?"
Who acts: I · What happens: call out, want · To what, where: you
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 6 call | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 call | obj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 call | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 call | mark |
| 6 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 call | compound:prt |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 want | advmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 call | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 want | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert in a quote | present | I | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | I | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme |
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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