Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 17
"There's a great danger coming," thinks St. Nicholas, and he goes to the Moujik again, and says:
Who acts: great danger, Nicholas, danger · What happens: be, come, think, go, say · To what, where: Moujik · 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 (great danger, Nicholas, danger), 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 's | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 's | expl |
| 3 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 says | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 danger | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 danger | amod |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 's | nsubj |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 danger | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinks | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 thinks | punct |
| 10 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 coming | parataxis |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Nicholas | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thinks | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 goes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 goes | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 goes | nsubj |
| 16 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thinks | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Moujik | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Moujik | det |
| 19 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 goes | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 goes | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 says | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 says | cc |
| 23 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a great danger | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | gerund | a great danger not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | Nicholas St. | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | present | danger | the Moujik | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to moujik=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/58/17/