Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 24

Then he takes to boasting, and says, "People talk about the Smorodina, saying that no one can cross it whether on foot or on horseback--but it is no better than a pool of rain-water!"

Who acts: youth, People, one, Smorodina · What happens: take, say, talk, cross, not be · To what, where: Smorodina · 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 (youth, People, one, Smorodina), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 takes	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 takes	nsubj
3	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 boasting	case
5	boasting	boasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 takes	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 says	cc
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 takes	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
11	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 talk	nsubj
12	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 says	ccomp
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 Smorodina	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Smorodina	det
15	Smorodina	Smorodina	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 talk	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 talk	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 cross	mark
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 one	det
20	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cross	nsubj
21	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 cross	aux
22	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 saying	ccomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cross	obj
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 foot	mark
25	on	on	ADP	_	26 foot	case
26	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cross	obj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 horseback	cc
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 horseback	case
29	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 foot	conj
30	--	--	PUNCT	_	35 better	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 better	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 better	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 better	cop
34	no	no	ADV	_	35 better	advmod
35	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 takes	parataxis
36	than	than	ADP	_	38 pool	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 pool	det
38	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 better	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 water	case
40	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 water	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 rain	punct
42	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 pool	nmod
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	35 better	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	youth		then	to boasting	vn require-103 «NP V that S»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
2	say speech: express	present	youth not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	talk in a quote	present	People			about the Smorodina	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about smorodina=Topic
4	say speech: assert in a quote	gerund	People not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	cross in a quote	can	no one	Smorodina			tree rules
6	not is in a quote	present	Smorodina			than a pool of rain water; good property	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.

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