Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 4
"Not three minutes did ye spend there, but three whole years," replied the Lord. "
Who acts: ye, Lord · What happens: spend, 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 (ye, Lord), 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 | _ | 7 spend | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 three | advmod |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 minutes | nummod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spend | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spend | aux |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 spend | nsubj |
| 7 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 replied | ccomp |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 spend | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 years | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 years | cc |
| 11 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 years | amod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spend | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spend | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Lord | det |
| 18 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 replied | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend in a quote | past · do-support | ye | there | minute; year | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Lord | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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