Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 30
"What are you lying on the stove for, fool? there's no wood for the fire; go and fetch some."
Who acts: you, wood · What happens: lie, fool, be, go, fetch · To what, where: stove, some · 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, wood), 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 lying | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 lying | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lying | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lying | nsubj |
| 5 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 's | csubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stove | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stove | det |
| 8 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lying | obl |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 fool | mark |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 for | punct |
| 11 | fool | fool | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 lying | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 lying | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 's | expl |
| 14 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 wood | det |
| 16 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 's | nsubj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 fire | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fire | det |
| 19 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wood | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 's | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fetch | cc |
| 23 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | conj |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 fetch | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie in a quote | present · progressive | you | the stove | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fool in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | no wood for the fire | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | some | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
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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