Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 39

But now, though I've been playing for three whole days, they are all sound.

Who acts: I, strings · What happens: play, be

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 (I, strings), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg22373:4275): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 sound	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 sound	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 playing	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 playing	nsubj
6	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 playing	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 playing	aux
8	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 sound	advcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 days	case
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 days	nummod
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 days	amod
12	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 playing	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 playing	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sound	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sound	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 sound	advmod
17	sound	sound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 sound	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · perfect · progressive	I				day		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	strings = string				now	all, sound property	tree rules

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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