Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 32
"Glory be to God, I've seen nothing bad."
Who acts: Glory, Soldier · What happens: be, see · To what, where: nothing
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 (Glory, Soldier), 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 God | punct |
| 2 | Glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 God | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 God | cop |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 God | case |
| 5 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seen | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 seen | nsubj |
| 8 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 seen | aux |
| 9 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 God | acl |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 seen | obj |
| 11 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nothing | amod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 God | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 God | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | Glory | to God | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · perfect | Soldier | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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