Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 6
"Have you been doing well while you were living down there?" asked her mother.
Who acts: you, mother · What happens: do, live down, ask · 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 (you, mother), 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 | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 doing | nsubj |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 doing | aux |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 doing | advmod |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 10 living | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 living | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 living | aux |
| 10 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 doing | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 there | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 living | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 mother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | you | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | live down in a quote | past · progressive | you | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | mother's mother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/26/6/