Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 22
When her father arrives and repeats his question, she says she has seen no one: she is going with a letter to his brother from Agnisikha, who has just been mortally wounded.
Who acts: father, daughter, Agnisikha · What happens: arrive, repeat, say, see, go, be · To what, where: question, one, Agnisikha · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, daughter, Agnisikha), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrives | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrives | nsubj |
| 4 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 repeats | cc |
| 6 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrives | conj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 question | nmod:poss |
| 8 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 repeats | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrives | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | nsubj |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 says | ccomp |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 going | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 says | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 letter | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 letter | det |
| 23 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 going | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 brother | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 going | obl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 Agnisikha | case |
| 28 | Agnisikha | Agnisikha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 going | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wounded | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 wounded | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 wounded | aux |
| 32 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 wounded | advmod |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 wounded | cop |
| 34 | mortally | mortally | ADV | _ | 35 wounded | advmod |
| 35 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Agnisikha | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | daughter's father | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | repeat | present | daughter's father not said here | father's question | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see | present · perfect | daughter | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go | present · progressive | daughter | Agnisikha | with a letter; to father's brother | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location from agnisikha=Destination | |||
| 6 | is | present · perfect | Agnisikha | mortally, wounded property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | question | father | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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