Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 39
When he had got there, and had exchanged greetings with his relatives, they said:
Who acts: Soldier, greetings · What happens: get, exchange, say · To what, where: greetings · 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, greetings), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 exchanged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 exchanged | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 exchanged | aux |
| 9 | exchanged | exchange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 got | advcl |
| 10 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 exchanged | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 relatives | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 13 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 greetings | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | Soldier | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | exchange | past · perfect | Soldier not said here | greetings | with Soldier's relatives | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent greeting=Theme with relative=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | greetings = greeting | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how 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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