Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 4, sentence 47
"I'm told you've got a wedding going on somewhere here?"
Who acts: you, wedding · What happens: tell, get, go · To what, where: I, wedding · 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 (you, wedding), 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 told | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux:pass |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 told | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wedding | det |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 wedding | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 somewhere | case |
| 12 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 going | advmod |
| 13 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 somewhere | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · passive | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | a wedding | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wedding=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | gerund | a wedding not said here | somewhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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