Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 92
"Don't cry," says he, "I can bring them to life!"
Who acts: I · What happens: not cry, say, bring · To what, where: moujik, lads, life · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cry | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cry | advmod |
| 4 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cry | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bring | aux |
| 13 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 says | ccomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bring | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 life | case |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bring | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cry speech: express in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | moujik | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | can | I | lads = lad | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Destination |
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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