Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 105
"I ate them, old man," cries the Pope; "I did really, so help me Heaven!"
Who acts: Pope · What happens: eat, cry, do, help · To what, where: loaves, Pope · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pope), 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 ate | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cries | csubj |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ate | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ate | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ate | punct |
| 10 | cries | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Pope | det |
| 12 | Pope | Pope | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 cries | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 did | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cries | conj |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 16 did | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 help | advmod |
| 20 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 cries | parataxis |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 help | obj |
| 22 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 help | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | past | the Pope = pope | loaves = loaf | old man obl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | present | the Pope | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past | the Pope = pope | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help in a quote | infinitive | the Pope = pope | 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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