Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 187
"We've been wrong, Ivan, in leaving our mill-stones in the old house.
Who acts: We · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: mill stones, old house
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 | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wrong | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wrong | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wrong | cop |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Ivan | punct |
| 7 | Ivan | Ivan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wrong | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaving | punct |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 leaving | mark |
| 10 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 wrong | advcl |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stones | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mill | mill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stones | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 mill | punct |
| 14 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 leaving | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 house | amod |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaving | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | We | Ivan vocative; wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | gerund | We not said here | our mill stones | the old house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in house=Location |
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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