Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 150
"Ah! that cursed Alenka!" she cried. "
Who acts: that, Alenka · What happens: curse, cry · To what, where: Alenka · 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 (that, Alenka), 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 cursed | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 cursed | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 cursed | nsubj |
| 5 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | Alenka | Alenka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cursed | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Alenka | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cursed | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse in a quote | past | that | Alenka | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alenka=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Alenka | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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