Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 101
"What sort of a reply is that?" thought the Cossack, as he put his horse up in the stable.
Who acts: sort · What happens: be, think, put up, sort · To what, where: that, Cossack, horse, stable, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sort), 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 | _ | 3 sort | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 sort | det |
| 3 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 reply | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reply | det |
| 6 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sort | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 that | cop |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sort | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sort | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sort | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cossack | det |
| 13 | Cossack | cossack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 put | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 put | nsubj |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 put | compound:prt |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 stable | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 stable | det |
| 23 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | what sort of a reply | the Cossack | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cossack=Theme | ||||
| 3 | put up | past | sort | sort's horse | the stable | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme in stable=Destination | |||
| 4 | sort in a quote | a reply | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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