Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 28
"We are doctors," they replied; "we can cure the Princess!"
Who acts: We, doctors · What happens: be, reply, cure · To what, where: doctors, Princess · 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 (We, doctors), 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 doctors | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 doctors | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 doctors | cop |
| 4 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 doctors | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 cure | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cure | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 cure | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 cure | aux |
| 13 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cure | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 cure | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | We | doctors | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | past | doctors | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cure in a quote | can | we | the Princess | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer princess=Source |
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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