Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 16
"Well, brother, everybody says there is evil on earth.
Who acts: everybody, evil · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everybody, evil), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Well | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 6 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 says | nsubj |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | ccomp |
| 10 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 earth | case |
| 12 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 evil | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | everybody | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | evil on earth | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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