Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 1
"Are you weaving, niece? are you weaving, my dear?"
Who acts: you · What happens: weave · To what, where: niece
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 4 weaving | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weaving | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 weaving | nsubj |
| 4 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 niece | punct |
| 6 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weaving | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 weaving | punct |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 weaving | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 weaving | nsubj |
| 10 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 weaving | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dear | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dear | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weaving | parataxis |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 weaving | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 weaving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave in a quote | present · progressive | you | niece | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent niece=Product | ||||
| 2 | weave in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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