Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 107
"Only hear me, Woe!" said the merchant: "it wasn't I at all who put you under the stone."
Who acts: merchant, account · What happens: hear, say, not be, put · To what, where: merchant, all, you, stone · 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 (merchant, account), 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 | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 hear | advmod |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Woe | punct |
| 6 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | vocative |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hear | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 merchant | det |
| 11 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 I | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 I | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 I | cop |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 I | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 all | case |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 I | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 stone | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stone | det |
| 25 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | infinitive | the merchant = merchant | Woe vocative | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the merchant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | past | account | the merchant = merchant | all | tree rules | |||
| 4 | put in a quote | past | the merchant = merchant | you | the stone | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme under stone=Destination |
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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