Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 17
"There he is, sure enough!" cried the devils, "but how are we to settle him.
Who acts: devils, we · What happens: be, cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (devils, we), 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 | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 devils | det |
| 12 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 settle | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 settle | advmod |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 settle | cop |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 settle | nsubj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 settle | mark |
| 20 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 settle | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | enough, sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the devils | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | we | settle property | 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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