Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 31
"Why, old man," said the wife, "go and see whatever that is up there."
Who acts: old man, whatever · What happens: say, go, see, be · To what, where: wife, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, whatever), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 see | cc |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | whatever | whatever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 there | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 there | cop |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 20 there | advmod |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | old man | the wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | see in a quote | infinitive | whatever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whatever=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | whatever | there property | 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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