Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 21
"I suppose it's quite impossible to get the better of you?" says the Soldier.
Who acts: Soldier · What happens: suppose, be, get, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Soldier), 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 | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 suppose | nsubj |
| 3 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 says | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 impossible | expl |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 impossible | cop |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 impossible | advmod |
| 7 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 suppose | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 impossible | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 better | det |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 get | xcomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 better | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 suppose | punct |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Soldier | det |
| 18 | Soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 says | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | present | the Soldier = soldier | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | say speech: ask | present | the Soldier | 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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