Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 137
"A bad piece of work!" thinks St. Nicholas.
Who acts: bad piece · What happens: think · To what, where: Nicholas
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bad piece), 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 piece | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 piece | det |
| 3 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 piece | amod |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thinks | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 work | case |
| 6 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piece | nmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 piece | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 piece | punct |
| 9 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 11 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 thinks | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | a bad piece of work | Nicholas St. | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nicholas=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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