Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 66
"Master!" asks Woe, "do you know the big stone on this plain?"
Who acts: Master, Woe · What happens: ask, know · To what, where: Woe, big stone, plain · 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 (Master, Woe), 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 | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 2 | Master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Master | punct |
| 5 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asks | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asks | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stone | amod |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 plain | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 plain | det |
| 17 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Master | Woe | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent woe=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · do-support | Woe | the big stone | this plain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus |
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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