Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 101
If Katoma had been alive, I should not have been feeding these cows afield!"
Who acts: Katoma, I · What happens: be, not feed · To what, where: cows afield
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Katoma, I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 alive | mark |
| 2 | Katoma | Katoma | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 alive | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 alive | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 alive | cop |
| 5 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 alive | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 feeding | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 feeding | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 feeding | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 feeding | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 feeding | aux |
| 12 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 alive | parataxis |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 afield | det |
| 14 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 afield | compound |
| 15 | afield | afield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feeding | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 afield | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 afield | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | Katoma | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not feed | should · perfect · progressive | I | this cows afield | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent afield=Recipient |
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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