Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 131
Why you couldn't creep into that wheel there, and yet you talk about chinks!"
Who acts: you · What happens: not creep, talk · To what, where: wheel
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 (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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 creep | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 creep | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 creep | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 creep | advmod |
| 5 | creep | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 wheel | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wheel | det |
| 8 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 creep | obl |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 creep | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 talk | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 talk | cc |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 talk | advmod |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 talk | nsubj |
| 14 | talk | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 creep | conj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 chinks | case |
| 16 | chinks | chink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 talk | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 creep | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 creep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not creep | could | you | that wheel; there | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wheel=Destination | ||||
| 2 | talk | present | you | yet | about chinks | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about chink=Topic |
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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