Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 10
"It's an ill wind that's brought you hither!"
Who acts: friend · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: ill wind
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 wind | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wind | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wind | cop |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 5 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wind | amod |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux:pass |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 wind | acl:relcl |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | obj |
| 11 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 wind | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 wind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | friend | a ill wind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · passive | a ill wind | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination |
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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