Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15, sentence 160

This sounds to the English ear like an ungracious reply, but it is the phrase ordinarily used by a superior when an inferior asks his pardon.

Who acts: This, reply, inferior · What happens: sound, be, use, ask, pardon · To what, where: phrase, pardon

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, reply, inferior), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 ear	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ear	det
5	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ear	amod
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	obl
7	like	like	ADP	_	10 reply	case
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 reply	det
9	ungracious	ungracious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reply	amod
10	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 phrase	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 phrase	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 phrase	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 phrase	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 phrase	det
16	phrase	phrase	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	parataxis
17	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	_	18 used	advmod
18	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 phrase	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 superior	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 superior	det
21	superior	superior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 used	obl
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 asks	advmod
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 inferior	det
24	inferior	inferior	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asks	nsubj
25	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 used	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pardon	nmod:poss
27	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asks	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sounds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	present	This		to the English ear; like a ungracious reply	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to ear=Experiencer
2	is a	present	reply	the phrase		tree rules
3	use	participle		the phrase not said here	by a superior; ordinarily property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	present	a inferior	inferior's pardon		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pardon=Recipient
5	pardon		inferior			nom pardon «act transitive»: poss=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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