Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 120
Some rubbishy fellow may come, and goodness knows who he may be!"
Who acts: rubbishy fellow, goodness · What happens: come, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rubbishy fellow, goodness), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 fellow | det |
| 2 | rubbishy | rubbishy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knows | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knows | cc |
| 8 | goodness | goodness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 knows | nsubj |
| 9 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 be | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 be | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 be | aux |
| 13 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 knows | ccomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | may | some rubbishy fellow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | present | goodness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | be | may | vn exist-47.1 «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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