Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 11

"Surely," thinks she, "they can't be still in want of a light at home."

Who acts: Home · What happens: think, not be · To what, where: want · 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 (Home), 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 thinks	punct
2	Surely	surely	ADV	_	5 thinks	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Surely	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thinks	punct
5	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 want	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 want	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 want	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 want	advmod
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 want	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	15 want	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 want	case
15	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thinks	ccomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 light	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 light	det
18	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 want	nmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 home	case
20	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 light	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thinks	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 thinks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present						surely property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is in a quote	can	Home			want	still	of a light at home	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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