Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 51
"Gladly," says he, slinking off (to the sleeping-place) above the stove.
Who acts: man · What happens: say, slink off · To what, where: sleeping place · 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 (man), 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 says | punct |
| 2 | Gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 5 says | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gladly | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 slinking | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 slinking | punct |
| 8 | slinking | slink | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 says | ccomp |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 slinking | compound:prt |
| 10 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 13 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sleeping | punct |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slinking | obl |
| 16 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 place | punct |
| 17 | above | above | ADP | _ | 19 stove | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stove | det |
| 19 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 place | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | gladly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | slink off | gerund | man | the sleeping place above the stove | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |
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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