Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 101
"I was," says the King, "but still I said to myself, 'Perhaps it will pull me out.'"
Who acts: King, perchance · What happens: be, say, pull out · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, perchance), 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 was | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 was | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 King | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 myself | case |
| 16 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pull | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 pull | punct |
| 19 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 22 pull | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pull | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 pull | aux |
| 22 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 pull | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 pull | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 pull | punct |
| 26 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 pull | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | the King = king | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the King = king | the King = king | still | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to myself=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | pull out in a quote | future | perchance | the King = king | perhaps property | 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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