Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 93
Well, the girl was no fool, so she went to a real aunt of hers first, and says she:
Who acts: girl · What happens: be, go, say · To what, where: fool, girl · 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 (girl), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 girl | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 girl | det |
| 4 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fool | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fool | cop |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 fool | det |
| 7 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fool | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 aunt | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 aunt | det |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 aunt | amod |
| 15 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 hers | case |
| 17 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 aunt | nmod |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 went | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 says | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 says | cc |
| 21 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fool | parataxis |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 says | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 fool | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the girl | no fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | girl | no fool not said here | to a real aunt of Yaga; first property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fool=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=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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