Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 140
"There are two of them singing (says the story), but three voices prolong the strain.
Who acts: two, three voices · What happens: be, sing, say, prolong · To what, where: story, strain · 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 (two, three voices), 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 are | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 two | nmod |
| 7 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 two | advcl |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 singing | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 story | punct |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prolong | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 prolong | cc |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 voices | nummod |
| 16 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 prolong | nsubj |
| 17 | prolong | prolong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 are | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 strain | det |
| 19 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 prolong | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | two of merchants | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express in a quote | gerund | two of merchants not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the story | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent story=Topic | |||||
| 4 | prolong in a quote | present | three voices | the strain | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent strain=Theme |
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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