Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 4
"Well then, granny, I've got to read psalms over the princess, and, do you know, she's a witch!"
Who acts: I, granny, you, princess · What happens: get, read, know, be · To what, where: granny, psalms, witch
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, granny, you, princess), 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 granny | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 granny | discourse |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Well | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 granny | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 read | mark |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 got | xcomp |
| 12 | psalms | psalm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 read | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 princess | det |
| 15 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 know | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 and | punct |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 got | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 witch | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 witch | nsubj |
| 24 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 witch | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 witch | det |
| 26 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 know | obl |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | I | granny | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | read in a quote | to-infinitive | granny not said here | psalms | over the princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalm=Topic | |||
| 3 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | princess | a witch | tree rules |
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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