Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 150
Since that time," says the story, "no one has ever set foot in that heavenly izbushka--so no one knows anything more about it."
Who acts: one · What happens: say, set, know · To what, where: story, one, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 set | aux |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 set | advmod |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 says | conj |
| 16 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 heavenly | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 heavenly | nsubj |
| 19 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 set | conj |
| 20 | izbushka | izbushka | X | Foreign=Yes | 19 heavenly | dep |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 knows | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 knows | advmod |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 knows | nsubj |
| 25 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | ccomp |
| 26 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 25 knows | obj |
| 27 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 anything | amod |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 more | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 knows | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the story | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | present · perfect · passive | no one | ever | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme foot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | know | present | no one | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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