Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 108
"What are you thinking about! you're still very small; suppose you get drowned, what good will there be in that?"
Who acts: you · What happens: be, suppose, drown · To what, where: you, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 thinking | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 thinking | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thinking | nsubj |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 small | csubj |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 thinking | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 small | nsubj |
| 9 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 small | cop |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 12 small | advmod |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 small | advmod |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 suppose | punct |
| 14 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 small | parataxis |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 drowned | aux:pass |
| 17 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 suppose | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 good | nsubj |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 small | parataxis |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 that | aux |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 that | advmod |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 that | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 good | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 good | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 small | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | about, think property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | still | small property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | suppose in a quote | infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | drown in a quote | present · passive | you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | future | that; there | tree rules |
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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