Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, To Him So Deeply Indebted., sentence 8
It may, however, be as well to say a few words about them.
Who acts: literature · What happens: be, say · To what, where: few words · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», To Him So Deeply Indebted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (literature), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 say | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 say | aux |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 may | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 say | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 as | cop |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 10 say | advmod |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 as | fixed |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 10 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 12 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 words | amod |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 say | obj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 words | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | as property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | may | literature | a few words | about words = word; however property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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