Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 2
"No," replied the Prince, "a hero's hand does not strike twice, but finishes its work with a single blow."
Who acts: Prince, hand · What happens: reply, not strike, finish, work · To what, where: work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, hand), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 finishes | parataxis |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 strike | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 strike | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hero | det |
| 11 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 hero | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strike | nsubj |
| 14 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 strike | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 strike | advmod |
| 16 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | conj |
| 17 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 strike | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 finishes | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 finishes | cc |
| 20 | finishes | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 finishes | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 blow | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 blow | det |
| 25 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 blow | amod |
| 26 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 finishes | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 finishes | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 finishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Prince | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not strike in a quote | present · do-support | a hero's hand | twice property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | finish in a quote | present | hand's work | with a single blow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | work in a quote | hand | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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