Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 98
"I have been on the earth," replies St. Kasian. "
Who acts: Lord · What happens: be · To what, where: earth
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 (Lord), 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 | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replies | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replies | punct |
| 10 | replies | reply | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 earth | conj |
| 11 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Kasian | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Kasian | Kasian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replies | appos |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 earth | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 earth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present · perfect | the Lord = lord | the earth and replies | tree rules |
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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