Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 23
"Now," thinks he, "my death has come!"
Who acts: flame, my · What happens: think, come, die · 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 (flame, my), 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 thinks | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 thinks | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinks | punct |
| 5 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 death | nmod:poss |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 thinks | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinks | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | now | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · perfect | flame | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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