Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 87

And now his head was actually in the noose--but it's "Not I!" all the same.

Who acts: head, I · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: noose, 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 (head, I), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 noose	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 noose	advmod
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 noose	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 noose	cop
6	actually	actually	ADV	_	9 noose	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 noose	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 noose	det
9	noose	noose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 same	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 same	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 I	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 I	cop
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 I	punct
15	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 I	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 same	nsubj
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 I	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 I	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 same	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 same	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 noose	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 noose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Heaven's head		the noose	now	actually property	tree rules
2	not is a in a quote	present	head	the old man to the Pope = man				tree rules
3	be		I					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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