Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 36
He goes home, and tells the bad news to his wife, who says, "It is Frost who has done this.
Who acts: dog, wife, news, Frost · What happens: go, tell, say, be, do · To what, where: bad news, wife, Frost, this · 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 (dog, wife, news, Frost), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 goes | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tells | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 tells | cc |
| 6 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 goes | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 news | det |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 news | amod |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tells | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tells | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 says | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 says | nsubj |
| 15 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wife | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 done | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Frost | punct |
| 18 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 Frost | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Frost | cop |
| 20 | Frost | Frost | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 done | nsubj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 says | ccomp |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 done | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | dog | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | dog not said here | the bad news | dog's wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent news=Topic to wife=Recipient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | dog's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | news | Frost | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | present · perfect | Frost | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
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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