Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 31
"Hail, friend! why have you been so long in coming to me?
Who acts: Hail · What happens: be, come · To what, where: eleven
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 (Hail), 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 | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 2 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 long | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hail | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 6 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 long | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 long | nsubj |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 long | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 coming | mark |
| 13 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 long | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 coming | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | Hail and friend | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | gerund | Hail and friend not said here | eleven | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location |
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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