Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 86
He mounted the third step--and again it was "Not I!"
Who acts: Heaven, step · What happens: mount, not be · To what, where: third step, old man
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 (Heaven, step), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 step | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 step | amod |
| 5 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 again | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 again | cc |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 mounted | advmod |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 I | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 I | cop |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 I | punct |
| 12 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 I | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 again | conj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | Heaven | the third step | again | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Patient | |||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | past | step | the old man to the Pope = man | 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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