Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 106
But he would not admit them, crying:
Who acts: abridgment · What happens: not admit, cry · To what, where: Apostles
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (abridgment), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 admit | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 admit | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 admit | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 admit | advmod |
| 5 | admit | admit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 admit | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 crying | punct |
| 8 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 admit | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 admit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not admit speech: other | would | abridgment | Apostles = apostle | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | abridgment not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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