Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 74
"Well, Soldier!" said he, "I know a good deal! and as to my daughter, we needn't speak of her.
Who acts: Soldier, we · What happens: say, know, not speak · To what, where: good deal · 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 (Soldier, 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Soldier | punct |
| 4 | Soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Soldier | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Soldier | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 deal | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 deal | amod |
| 15 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 speak | cc |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 21 daughter | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 as | fixed |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 21 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 speak | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 daughter | punct |
| 23 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 speak | nsubj |
| 24 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 speak | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 speak | advmod |
| 26 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | conj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 her | case |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 speak | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | Soldier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | Soldier | a good deal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deal=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not speak speech: other in a quote | present | we | as my daughter; of witch | vn talk-37.5 «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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