Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 32
"Grey am I, being the devil's grandfather!"
Who acts: moujik · What happens: be · To what, where: Grey grandfather
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 (moujik), 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 Grey | punct |
| 2 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grandfather | amod |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 grandfather | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 grandfather | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grandfather | punct |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 grandfather | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 devil | det |
| 8 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 devil | case |
| 10 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 grandfather | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 grandfather | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | moujik | the devil's Grey grandfather | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/32/