Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 122
"I say, Prascovia! the frost's skinning me alive.
Who acts: girls, frost · What happens: say, skin · To what, where: Prascovia, girls · 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 (girls, frost), 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 | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 say | nsubj |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Prascovia | punct |
| 5 | Prascovia | Prascovia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Prascovia | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 frost | det |
| 8 | frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obj |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 frost | case |
| 10 | skinning | skin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 frost | acl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 skinning | obj |
| 12 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skinning | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the girls = girl | Prascovia | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent prascovia=Theme frost=Manner | ||||
| 2 | skin in a quote | gerund | the frost not said here | the girls = girl | alive property | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient |
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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