Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 9
They say there's evil (_likho_)[225] in the world.
Who acts: eyes, evil · What happens: say, be · To what, where: world · 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 (eyes, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 's | expl |
| 4 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 say | ccomp |
| 5 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 's | nsubj |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 likho | punct |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 likho | punct |
| 8 | likho | likho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 evil | appos |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 likho | punct |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 likho | punct |
| 11 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 12 225 | punct |
| 12 | 225 | 225 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 evil | appos |
| 13 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 12 225 | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 's | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | eyes = eye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | present | evil | the world; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in world=Location |
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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