Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 104
"Ha!" it cried, "you wanted to starve me to death in here!
Who acts: head, you · What happens: cry, want, starve · To what, where: head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, you), 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 | _ | 6 cried | punct |
| 2 | Ha | ha | INTJ | _ | 6 cried | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ha | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 wanted | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cried | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 starve | mark |
| 12 | starve | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 starve | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 starve | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 here | case |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 starve | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | head | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | want in a quote | past | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | starve not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | head | to death | 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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