Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 2
"I'm weaving, dear aunt, I'm weaving," gruffly replied the Cat.
Who acts: Cat · What happens: weave, reply · To what, where: dear aunt · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Cat), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 weaving | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weaving | aux |
| 4 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 aunt | punct |
| 6 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 aunt | amod |
| 7 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weaving | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 weaving | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 weaving | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 weaving | aux |
| 11 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 weaving | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 replied | punct |
| 14 | gruffly | gruffly | ADV | _ | 15 replied | advmod |
| 15 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 weaving | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Cat | det |
| 17 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 replied | obj |
| 18 | . | . | 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 | the Cat = cat | dear aunt | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weave in a quote | present · progressive | the Cat = cat | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Cat | gruffly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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