Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 52
When she is called for--says the story--the puppets in the four corners begin to coo.
Who acts: four corners · What happens: call, say, begin, coo · To what, where: bride, story, puppets · 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 (four corners), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 called | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 says | advcl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 called | obl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 puppets | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 puppets | det |
| 12 | puppets | puppet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 story | appos |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 corners | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 corners | det |
| 15 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 corners | nummod |
| 16 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 begin | nsubj |
| 17 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 puppets | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 coo | mark |
| 19 | coo | coo | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 begin | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | bride | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin | present | the four corners | the puppets not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | coo | to-infinitive | the four corners not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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