Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 113
"What is that brute of a cowherd doing?
Who acts: cowherd · What happens: be, do · To what, where: brute
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 (cowherd), 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 brute | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 brute | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brute | cop |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 brute | det |
| 5 | brute | brute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cowherd | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cowherd | det |
| 8 | cowherd | cowherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brute | nmod |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 cowherd | acl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 brute | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that brute | of a cowherd | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | gerund | a cowherd not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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