Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 133
"Why, child!" says the old crone; "whatever hast thou got up so early for?
Who acts: child, whatever, thou · What happens: say, have, get up · To what, where: old crone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, whatever, thou), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 says | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 child | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crone | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crone | amod |
| 10 | crone | crone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 hast | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 hast | punct |
| 13 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hast | nsubj |
| 14 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | conj |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 got | nsubj |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hast | ccomp |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 16 got | advmod |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 early | advmod |
| 19 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 got | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 got | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | child | the old crone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent crone=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | whatever | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get up in a quote | past | thou | early property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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