Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 169
"My lord King!" says the Queen, "tell me wherefore thou droppest bitter tears?"
Who acts: lord, thou · What happens: say, tell, drop · To what, where: lord, bitter tears · 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 (lord, thou), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | appos |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 King | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queen | det |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 droppest | advmod |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 droppest | nsubj |
| 16 | droppest | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tears | amod |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 droppest | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | My lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | My lord not said here | My lord = lord | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | drop in a quote | present | thou | bitter tears | wherefore property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=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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