Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 25
"Why like this," said the girl, and explained the whole matter.
Who acts: girl, whole matter · What happens: say, explain · 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 (girl, whole matter), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 said | advmod |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 girl | det |
| 9 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 explained | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 explained | cc |
| 12 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 matter | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 matter | amod |
| 15 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 explained | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | like this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | the whole matter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «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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