Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 107
Says the Eagle, "Look, my lord King! what is above us and what below us?"
Who acts: Eagle, King · What happens: say, look, be · 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 (Eagle, King), 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 | Says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Says | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Look | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Look | punct |
| 6 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Says | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 King | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lord | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 King | nmod:desc |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 us | nsubj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 King | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 us | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 us | cop |
| 14 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 Look | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 what | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 us | conj |
| 18 | below | below | ADP | _ | 19 us | case |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 what | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 Look | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | the Eagle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | King my lord | above us | 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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