Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 88
"What! in fifteen whole years you couldn't entrap a soldier!
What happens: not entrap · To what, where: soldier
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 11 entrap | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 entrap | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 years | case |
| 5 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 years | nummod |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 years | amod |
| 7 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 entrap | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 entrap | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 entrap | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 entrap | advmod |
| 11 | entrap | entrap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 soldier | det |
| 13 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entrap | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 entrap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not entrap in a quote | could | a soldier | year | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Patient |
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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