Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 132
"What, you fright! you sleepy-face! you abominable shrew! why, you don't know so much as how to begin weaving: and as to going on with it, you haven't an idea!"
Who acts: sleepy face, you · What happens: fright, not know, begin, weave, go on, have · To what, where: much, idea
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 (sleepy face, you), 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 | _ | 5 fright | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 fright | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fright | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fright | nsubj |
| 5 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 fright | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 face | nsubj |
| 8 | sleepy | sleepy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 face | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleepy | punct |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 face | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 face | nsubj |
| 13 | abominable | abominable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shrew | amod |
| 14 | shrew | shrew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | conj |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 face | punct |
| 16 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 face | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 face | conj |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 much | advmod |
| 23 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 know | obj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 begin | mark |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 begin | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 begin | mark |
| 27 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 much | advcl |
| 28 | weaving | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 begin | xcomp |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 have | cc |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 going | mark |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 have | advcl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 going | compound:prt |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 going | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 going | punct |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | conj |
| 40 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 idea | advmod |
| 41 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 idea | det |
| 42 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obj |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 face | punct |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 face | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fright in a quote | sleepy face and abominable shrew | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | you | much | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer much=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | weave in a quote | gerund | you not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go on in a quote | gerund | you not said here | with fright | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | you | a idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=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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