Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 62
There he sat, thinking, "What's to be done?"
Who acts: cord · What happens: sit, think, do · 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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinking | punct |
| 5 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 8 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 done | obj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 done | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 done | aux:pass |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sat | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | cord | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | gerund | cord not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · passive | cord not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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