Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 39
"We've cured her," say the doctors. "
Who acts: We, doctors · What happens: cure, say · To what, where: 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 cured | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 cured | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cured | aux |
| 4 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cured | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 say | punct |
| 8 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 cured | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 doctors | det |
| 10 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 say | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cured | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure in a quote | present · perfect | We | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | the doctors | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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