Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 48
"Shall we take the youngster?" they thought. "
Who acts: we, horses · What happens: take, think · To what, where: youngster · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, horses), 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 | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 youngster | det |
| 6 | youngster | youngster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | parataxis |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | shall | we | the youngster | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent youngster=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | horses = horse | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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