Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 17
"Listen, O Dog! thou wert a Dog (_Sobaka_), a clean beast; through all Paradise the most holy didst thou roam.
Who acts: holy · What happens: listen, do · To what, where: thou, Paradise
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 (holy), 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 | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wert | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Dog | punct |
| 4 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 Dog | case |
| 5 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Listen | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 wert | nsubj |
| 8 | wert | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Dog | det |
| 10 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wert | obj |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sobaka | punct |
| 12 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sobaka | punct |
| 13 | Sobaka | Sobaka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Dog | appos |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sobaka | punct |
| 15 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sobaka | punct |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 beast | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 beast | det |
| 18 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beast | amod |
| 19 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Dog | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 didst | punct |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 Paradise | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 Paradise | det |
| 23 | Paradise | Paradise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 didst | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 holy | det |
| 25 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 26 holy | advmod |
| 26 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 didst | nsubj |
| 27 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wert | conj |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 didst | obj |
| 29 | roam | roam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 didst | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wert | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | of Dog | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of dog=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | past | the holy | thou | all Paradise | 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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