Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 75
Why, it's I who'll be chopping you into small pieces!"
Who acts: hatchet, I · What happens: be, chop · To what, where: I, you, small pieces
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 (hatchet, 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 chopping | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 I | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 I | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 I | cop |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 chopping | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 chopping | nsubj |
| 7 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 chopping | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 chopping | aux |
| 9 | chopping | chop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 chopping | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 pieces | case |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pieces | amod |
| 13 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chopping | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 chopping | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 chopping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | hatchet | I | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chop | future · progressive | I | you | into small pieces result | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient into piece=Result |
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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