Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 12
"What an idea! that I should go and tell--"
Who acts: Nicholas · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: idea · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 idea | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 idea | nsubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 idea | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 go | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 idea | acl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tell | cc |
| 11 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 go | conj |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 idea | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | should | Nicholas brother = nicholas | a idea not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location idea=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Nicholas brother = nicholas not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «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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