Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 129
There isn't a chink I can't get into!"
Who acts: chink, I · What happens: not be, not get · To what, where: chink
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 (chink, I), 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 | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 is | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chink | det |
| 5 | chink | chink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 get | nsubj |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 get | advmod |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 chink | acl:relcl |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 get | obl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | a chink | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not get | can | I | a chink not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chink=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/129/