Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 175
In my house I hate having dirt carried out of doors;[192] and as to over-inquisitive people--well, I eat them.
Who acts: I, dirt · What happens: hate, have, carry out, eat · To what, where: 192, house, doors
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dirt), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 house | nmod:poss |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hate | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 hate | nsubj |
| 5 | hate | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hate | xcomp |
| 7 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | nsubj |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 having | parataxis |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 doors | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 doors | case |
| 11 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carried | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 192 | punct |
| 13 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 192 | punct |
| 14 | 192 | 192 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 hate | obl |
| 15 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 14 192 | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 people | cc |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 20 people | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | over-inquisitive | over-inquisitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 people | amod |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 192 | conj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
| 22 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 25 eat | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 well | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 eat | nsubj |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hate | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 eat | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | present | I | 192 and over-inquisitive people | my house | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have not said to happen | gerund | I not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | carry out | past | dirt | doors | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | I | doors = door | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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