Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 50
"Now then, granny," says he, "just turn over."
Who acts: evil · What happens: say, turn over · 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 (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 | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 says | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 granny | punct |
| 5 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 granny | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 granny | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 turn | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turn | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 turn | punct |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 turn | advmod |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 turn | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | turn over in a quote | infinitive | evil | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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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