Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 115
"Impossible to go on living like this!" says the merchant to himself. "
Who acts: merchant · What happens: go, live, say · 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), 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 | _ | 2 Impossible | punct |
| 2 | Impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 says | nsubj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Impossible | xcomp |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 living | mark |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 go | advcl |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 living | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Impossible | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Impossible | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 merchant | det |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 merchant | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live in a quote | gerund | the merchant not said here | like this | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | present | the merchant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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