Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 91
"Stop, grandfather!" replies his grandchild. "
Who acts: grandchild · What happens: stop, reply · To what, where: grandfather · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (grandchild), 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 | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replies | parataxis |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grandfather | punct |
| 4 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stop | obj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 7 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 grandchild | nmod:poss |
| 9 | grandchild | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replies | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replies | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | infinitive | grandfather | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality grandfather=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: express | present | grandfather's grandchild | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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