Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 63
No reply came from him, "but there was a human head in the forest, and it replied, 'I'm coming immediately!'
Who acts: reply, human head, head · What happens: come, be, reply · To what, where: forest · 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 (reply, human head, head), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 reply | det |
| 2 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 12 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 head | amod |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 forest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 forest | det |
| 16 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 replied | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 replied | nsubj |
| 20 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 coming | punct |
| 22 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 coming | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 coming | nsubj |
| 24 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 coming | aux |
| 25 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 replied | ccomp |
| 26 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 25 coming | advmod |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 coming | punct |
| 28 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | no reply | from father | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | a human head | the forest; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: express in a quote | past | head | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in a quote | present · progressive | head | immediately property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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