Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 110
"What are you waiting for, dog's-meat?"
Who acts: you · What happens: wait
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 (you), 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 waiting | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 waiting | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 waiting | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 waiting | nsubj |
| 5 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 meat | case |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 meat | punct |
| 8 | dog's | dog's | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meat | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 dog's | punct |
| 10 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 waiting | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 waiting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | present · progressive | you | for dog's meat | tree rules |
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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