Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 18
"Their mothers cursed them while still unborn," is the reply. "
Who acts: mothers · What happens: curse, be · To what, where: children, reply · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mothers), 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 cursed | punct |
| 2 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cursed | nsubj |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reply | nsubj |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cursed | obj |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 unborn | mark |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 unborn | advmod |
| 8 | unborn | unborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cursed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cursed | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cursed | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 reply | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reply | det |
| 13 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 reply | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse in a quote | past | children's mothers | children = child | unborn property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | be speech: assert | present | the reply | 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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