Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 90
"I was," said the King; "I thought I was going to be drowned outright!"
Who acts: King · What happens: be, say, think, go, drown · 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), 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 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 King | det |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | advcl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 drowned | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 drowned | aux:pass |
| 18 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 going | xcomp |
| 19 | outright | outright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 drowned | xcomp |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | 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: express | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | past | the King = king | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | past · progressive | the King = king | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | drown in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | the King = king not said here | outright property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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/pg22373/26/90/