Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 9
Says the lazybones (_lezhaka_):
What happens: say · To what, where: lazybones · 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: 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 | Says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lazybones | det |
| 3 | lazybones | lazybone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Says | obj |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 lezhaka | punct |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 lezhaka | punct |
| 6 | lezhaka | lezhaka | X | Foreign=Yes | 3 lazybones | appos |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 lezhaka | punct |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 lezhaka | punct |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the lazybones | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lazybone=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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