Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 55
Then he makes some excuse for not having got any supper ready for them, but says nothing about what has really happened to him.
Who acts: rest · What happens: make, not get, say, happen · To what, where: excuse, supper, nothing, rest · 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 (rest), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 makes | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 excuse | det |
| 5 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 got | mark |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 got | advmod |
| 8 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 makes | advcl |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 supper | det |
| 11 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 got | xcomp |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ready | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 says | cc |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 says | obj |
| 19 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 23 happened | mark |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 happened | aux |
| 22 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 happened | advmod |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 says | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 happened | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | rest | some excuse | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Product | |||
| 2 | not get | gerund · perfect | rest not said here | any supper | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer supper=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | rest not said here | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen | present · perfect | rest | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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