Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 24
"Why, that's for Nicholas!" said the peasant and passed on.
Who acts: that, Nicholas · What happens: be, say, pass on · To what, where: peasant · 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 (that, 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nicholas | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Nicholas | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 Nicholas | cop |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Nicholas | case |
| 7 | Nicholas | Nicholas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nicholas | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Nicholas | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peasant | det |
| 12 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 passed | cc |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 passed | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | that | for Nicholas | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Nicholas | the peasant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peasant=Topic | ||||
| 3 | pass on | participle | Nicholas not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: 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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