Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 2
"We only stayed while we were drinking," replied the Apostles. "
Who acts: We, Apostles · What happens: stay, drink, 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 (We, Apostles), 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 stayed | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 stayed | advmod |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 drinking | mark |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 drinking | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 drinking | aux |
| 8 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stayed | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Apostles | det |
| 13 | Apostles | Apostle | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | past | We | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drink in a quote | past · progressive | we | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Apostles | vn respond-113 «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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