Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 150
"We might borrow, but who would trust us?" says he.
Who acts: We · What happens: borrow, trust, say · To what, where: us, man · 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 (We), 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 | _ | 4 borrow | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 borrow | nsubj |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 borrow | aux |
| 4 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 says | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 trust | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 trust | cc |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 trust | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 trust | aux |
| 9 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 borrow | ccomp |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 trust | iobj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 borrow | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 borrow | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 says | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | borrow in a quote | might | We | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | trust in a quote | would | us | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | present | man | tree rules |
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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