Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 12
But suddenly a hollow voice issued from the skull, saying:
Who acts: hollow voice · What happens: issue, say · To what, where: hollow voice, skull · 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 (hollow voice), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 saying | cc |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 voice | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 4 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 voice | amod |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saying | nsubj |
| 6 | issued | issue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 voice | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 skull | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 skull | det |
| 9 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 issued | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | participle | a hollow voice not said here | the skull | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | a hollow voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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