Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 6
"Well, at all events, I've been at my brother's name-day party.
Who acts: man · What happens: be · To what, where: day party, events
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 (man), 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 | _ | 18 party | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 18 party | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 events | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 events | det |
| 6 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 party | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 events | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 party | nsubj |
| 9 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 party | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 party | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 brother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 day | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 name | punct |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 party | compound |
| 18 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 party | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | man | day party | all events | 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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