Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 76
"Where?" said Woe, bending down; "I can't see a thing."
Who acts: Woe · What happens: say, bend down, not see · To what, where: thing · 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 (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 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Woe | Woe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bending | punct |
| 8 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 bending | compound:prt |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 thing | det |
| 17 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Woe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bend down | gerund | Woe not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not see in a quote | can | Woe | a thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=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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