Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 138
"Why are you making a pie, granny?" asked Vasilissa.
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: make, ask · To what, where: pie, Vasilissa · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vasilissa), 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 making | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 making | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 making | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 making | nsubj |
| 5 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pie | det |
| 7 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 making | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 granny | punct |
| 9 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pie | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 making | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present · progressive | Vasilissa | a pie and granny | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pie=Product | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Vasilissa | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent vasilissa=Recipient 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.
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