Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 51
"God knows, soldier, who breaks in whom," replies the girl. "
Who acts: God, soldier, girl · What happens: know, break, reply · To what, where: soldier · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (God, soldier, girl), 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 knows | punct |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 soldier | punct |
| 5 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replies | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 breaks | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 breaks | nsubj |
| 8 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 soldier | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 breaks | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whom | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 breaks | punct |
| 13 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replies | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | God | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | break in a quote | present | soldier | soldier | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | present | the girl | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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