Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 44
The strings are snapped; I've nothing to play on!"
Who acts: I · What happens: snap, have, play on · To what, where: strings, nothing
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 strings | det |
| 2 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 snapped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 snapped | aux:pass |
| 4 | snapped | snap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 've | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 've | nsubj |
| 7 | 've | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 snapped | parataxis |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 've | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 play | mark |
| 10 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 nothing | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 play | compound:prt |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 snapped | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 snapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | present · passive | the strings | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | play on | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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