Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 1, sentence 92

But the swallows cried, with opposite intent, _Umer!

Who acts: swallows · What happens: cry · To what, where: Umer

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 (swallows), 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	_	4 cried	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallows	det
3	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cried	nsubj
4	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 intent	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 intent	case
7	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 intent	amod
8	intent	intent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 intent	punct
10	_	_	PUNCT	_	11 Umer	punct
11	Umer	Umer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cried	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	the swallows	Umer				with opposite intent	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with intent=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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