Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 66
Then the fiend beckoned to the Fiddler, saying, "It's time to be off!"
Who acts: fiend, wonder · What happens: beckon, say, be · To what, where: fiend, Fiddler, time · 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 (fiend, wonder), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 saying | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fiend | det |
| 3 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saying | nsubj |
| 4 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fiend | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Fiddler | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Fiddler | det |
| 7 | Fiddler | Fiddler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beckoned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 9 | saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 12 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 time | nsubj |
| 13 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saying | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 off | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 off | cop |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 time | compound:prt |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | participle | the fiend not said here | the Fiddler | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to fiddler=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | gerund | the fiend | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | wonder | time | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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