Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 34
When this has been applied, the dead man returns to life, sits up, and says in the words of the Russian heroes--"How long I have slept!"
Who acts: dead man · What happens: apply, return, sit up, say, sleep, word · To what, where: this, words, Russian heroes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dead 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 applied | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 applied | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 applied | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 applied | aux:pass |
| 5 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 returns | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returns | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returns | nsubj |
| 10 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returns | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sits | punct |
| 14 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 returns | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 sits | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 says | cc |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 returns | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 words | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 words | det |
| 21 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 says | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 heroes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 heroes | det |
| 24 | Russian | Russian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 heroes | amod |
| 25 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 words | nmod |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 slept | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 slept | punct |
| 28 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 long | advmod |
| 29 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 slept | advmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 slept | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 slept | aux |
| 32 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 says | ccomp |
| 33 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 slept | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | present · perfect · passive | this | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | present | the dead man | to life result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to life=Result | ||||
| 3 | sit up | present | the dead man not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: express | present | the dead man not said here | the words of the Russian heroes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | sleep in a quote | present · perfect | the dead man = man | long property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | word | the Russian heroes | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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