Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 26
And as he plaited the shoe, he kept looking up at the moon, and saying with a menacing gesture:--
Who acts: log · What happens: plait, keep, look up, say · To what, where: shoe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (log), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kept | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 plaited | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 plaited | nsubj |
| 4 | plaited | plait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 kept | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shoe | det |
| 6 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 plaited | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 plaited | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kept | nsubj |
| 9 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 kept | xcomp |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 looking | compound:prt |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 moon | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 moon | det |
| 14 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looking | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saying | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saying | cc |
| 17 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 looking | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 gesture | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 gesture | det |
| 20 | menacing | menacing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gesture | amod |
| 21 | gesture | gesture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saying | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plait | past | log | the shoe | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | log | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | look up | gerund | log not said here | at the moon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | log not said here | with a menacing gesture | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with gesture=Manner |
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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