Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 113
Here is Nicholas as a surety," he cried, pointing to a picture of St. Nicholas.
Who acts: Nicholas · What happens: be, cry, point · To what, where: picture
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 (Nicholas), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 cried | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 3 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | vocative |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 surety | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 surety | det |
| 6 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pointing | punct |
| 12 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 picture | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 picture | det |
| 15 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pointing | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Nicholas | case |
| 17 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 18 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 picture | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | as a surety; Nicholas vocative; here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Nicholas | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | point in a quote | gerund | Nicholas not said here | a picture of Nicholas St. | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to picture=Recipient |
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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