Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 26
"What sort of a fool is this!" they say. "
Who acts: sisters · What happens: be, say, sort · To what, where: this, sort, fool · 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 (sisters), 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 | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 fool | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fool | det |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sort | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 this | cop |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sort | conj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sort | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sort | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 say | nsubj |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sort | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sort | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | sisters = sister | what sort of a fool not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sort=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sort in a quote | a fool | 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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