Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 31
In a forgetful moment he replies, "It is mine," and immediately the whole crop begins to burn.
Who acts: man, field, whole crop · What happens: reply, be, begin, burn · To what, where: man · 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 (man, field, whole crop), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | forgetful | forgetful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replies | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 replies | nsubj |
| 6 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 9 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 mine | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 mine | cop |
| 11 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 replies | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 mine | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 begins | cc |
| 15 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 19 begins | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 crop | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crop | amod |
| 18 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 begins | nsubj |
| 19 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 replies | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 burn | mark |
| 21 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 begins | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | present | man | moment | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | field | man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | present | the whole crop | immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | burn | to-infinitive | the whole crop not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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