Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 70
"Now then, what are you hanging your chaps and squealing about?" said her stepmother. "
Who acts: you, stepmother · What happens: hang, squeal, say · To what, where: chaps · 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 (you, stepmother), 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 | _ | 8 hanging | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 then | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 hanging | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 hanging | obj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hanging | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 hanging | nsubj |
| 8 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 chaps | nmod:poss |
| 10 | chaps | chap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hanging | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 squealing | cc |
| 12 | squealing | squeal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hanging | conj |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 12 squealing | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 hanging | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hanging | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang in a quote | present · progressive | you | your chaps | then | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Patient chap=Result | |||
| 2 | squeal in a quote | gerund | you not said here | about property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | girl's stepmother | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/39/70/