Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 102

"I have been on the earth," says St. Nicholas, whose clothes were all covered with mud. "

Who acts: earth · What happens: be, say, cover · To what, where: earth, Nicholas · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earth), 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 earth	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 earth	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 earth	aux
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 earth	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 earth	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earth	det
7	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 says	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 earth	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 earth	punct
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Nicholas	nmod:desc
12	Nicholas	Nicholas	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 covered	nsubj:pass
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 covered	punct
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 clothes	nmod:poss
15	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	18 covered	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 covered	aux:pass
17	all	all	ADV	_	18 covered	advmod
18	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 says	ccomp
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 mud	case
20	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 covered	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present · perfect	the earth = earth		the earth		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the earth				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cover	past · passive		Nicholas St.		with mud; all property	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mud=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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