Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 35
Ah!" thinks he, "I'm a lost man--and all for nothing!"
Who acts: I · What happens: think, lose, be · To what, where: Soldier, lost man · 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 (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 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 thinks | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ah | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinks | punct |
| 4 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thinks | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 man | nsubj |
| 9 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 man | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thinks | ccomp |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 all | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 all | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 man | appos |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 nothing | case |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 all | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | Soldier | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | a lost man | tree rules |
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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