Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 52
"That won't do, granny," says he; "that cord doesn't suit."
Who acts: That, cord · What happens: not do, say, not suit · To what, where: granny, evil · 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 (That, cord), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 granny | punct |
| 7 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 suit | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 suit | punct |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 cord | det |
| 15 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 suit | nsubj |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 suit | aux |
| 17 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 suit | advmod |
| 18 | suit | suit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 suit | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 suit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do in a quote | future | That | granny | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent granny=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | evil | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not suit in a quote | present · do-support | that cord | 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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