Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 48
"Couldn't a service[405] be performed?" they said.
Who acts: father · What happens: not perform, say · To what, where: service · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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 | _ | 10 performed | punct |
| 2 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 performed | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 performed | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 service | det |
| 5 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 performed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 7 405 | punct |
| 7 | 405 | 405 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 service | appos |
| 8 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 7 405 | punct |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 performed | aux:pass |
| 10 | performed | perform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 performed | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 performed | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not perform in a quote | could · passive | a service | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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