Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 105
"Why you see," replied the master of the house, "in our village Death goes about at night.
Who acts: you, master, our · What happens: see, reply, go about, die · To what, where: village Death · 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 (you, master, our), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 see | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 goes | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 master | det |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 master | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Death | case |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Death | nmod:poss |
| 17 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Death | compound |
| 18 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goes | obl |
| 19 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | about | about | ADV | _ | 19 goes | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 night | case |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 goes | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 goes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the master of the house | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go about in a quote | present | our village Death | night | about property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | die in a quote | our | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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