Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 43
"There now, brothers!" says the Fiddler, "you can see for yourselves.
Who acts: Fiddler, you · What happens: say, see · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Fiddler, you), 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 | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 says | ccomp |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 says | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brothers | punct |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 says | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 brothers | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brothers | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fiddler | det |
| 10 | Fiddler | Fiddler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 says | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 yourselves | case |
| 17 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 see | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the Fiddler | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | can | you | for yourselves | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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