Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 141
"'Whoever is that?' say they.
Who acts: Whoever, you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: that, merchants · 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 (Whoever, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 3 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 that | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 that | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 say | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 that | punct |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 say | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Whoever | that | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | merchants = merchant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/36/141/