Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 151
"I didn't call you," replies the old man. "
Who acts: old man · What happens: not call, reply · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old 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 call | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 call | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 call | advmod |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replies | csubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 call | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 9 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replies | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replies | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not call in a quote | past · do-support | the old man = man | you | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | present | the old man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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