Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 99
Since you knew how to bring them back to life, maybe it was you who killed them!"
Who acts: you, combination · What happens: know, bring back, be, kill · To what, where: authorities, life, you · 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 (you, combination), 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 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 3 knew | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 bring | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 knew | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 life | case |
| 10 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 12 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 17 killed | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 you | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 you | cop |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 killed | nsubj |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 killed | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | bring back | to-infinitive | authorities = authority | life | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to life=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | combination | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | you | authorities = authority | maybe property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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