Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 44
But the Wind says, "I will blow cold, and temper the heat."
Who acts: Wind · What happens: say, blow · To what, where: cold · 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 (Wind), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 says | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Wind | det |
| 3 | Wind | Wind | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 says | nsubj |
| 4 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 blow | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 blow | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 blow | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 blow | aux |
| 9 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 says | ccomp |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blow | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 temper | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 temper | cc |
| 13 | temper | temper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blow | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heat | det |
| 15 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blow | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 blow | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Wind | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | blow in a quote | future | the Wind = wind | cold | temper obl | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent cold=Beneficiary heat=Product |
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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