Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 98
The imp, you see, understood his business."
Who acts: you, imp · What happens: see, understand · To what, where: imp, business
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 (you, imp), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 imp | det |
| 2 | imp | imp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understood | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 imp | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 imp | punct |
| 7 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 business | nmod:poss |
| 9 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 understood | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 understood | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | the imp not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer imp=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | understand | past | the imp | imp's business | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer business=Stimulus |
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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