Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 60
Why that's the daughter of our merchant here, an awful witch!
Who acts: that · What happens: be · To what, where: daughter
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 (that), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 daughter | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 daughter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 daughter | det |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 merchant | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 merchant | nmod:poss |
| 8 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | nmod |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 merchant | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 witch | punct |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 witch | det |
| 12 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 witch | amod |
| 13 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 daughter | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the daughter and a awful witch | of our merchant | 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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