Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 96
"Only see how I've devastated the Moujik's cornfield!"
Who acts: you, Elijah · What happens: see, devastate · To what, where: cornfield · 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 (you, Elijah), 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 see | advmod |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 devastated | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 devastated | nsubj |
| 6 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 devastated | aux |
| 7 | devastated | devastate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 see | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Moujik | det |
| 9 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cornfield | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Moujik | case |
| 11 | cornfield | cornfield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 devastated | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | devastate in a quote | present · perfect | Elijah | the Moujik's cornfield | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cornfield=Experiencer |
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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