Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 95
"I was," he replied, "but all the time I thought, 'Perhaps, please God, the creature will pull me out.'"
Who acts: I, creature · What happens: be, think, pull out · To what, where: me · 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 (I, creature), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 time | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 God | punct |
| 17 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 God | punct |
| 18 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 21 God | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Perhaps | punct |
| 20 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 21 God | discourse |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pull | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 creature | det |
| 24 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pull | nsubj |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 pull | aux |
| 26 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 God | parataxis |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 pull | obj |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 pull | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 pull | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 pull | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be speech: assert | past | I | reply property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | I | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | pull out in a quote | future | the creature | me | 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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