Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 5
Her father will not remark the change, she says, for being of the demon race, he is not very sharp witted.
Who acts: father, demon · What happens: not remark, say, be, not be · To what, where: change · 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, demon), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remark | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 remark | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 remark | advmod |
| 5 | remark | remark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 change | det |
| 7 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remark | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | nsubj |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 remark | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 race | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 race | case |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 race | cop |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 race | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 race | det |
| 16 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 race | compound |
| 17 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 witted | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 witted | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 witted | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 witted | advmod |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 sharp | advmod |
| 23 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 witted | amod |
| 24 | witted | witted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 race | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remark | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not remark speech: assert | future | demon's father | the change | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent change=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | demon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | for the demon race | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not is | present | father | witted property | 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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