Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 128
I've seen nobody, and yet somebody has carried off my crust!
Who acts: I · What happens: see, carry off · To what, where: nobody, somebody
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 seen | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carried | cc |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 carried | advmod |
| 8 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | aux |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seen | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 carried | compound:prt |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 crust | nmod:poss |
| 13 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present · perfect | I | nobody | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nobody=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | carry off | present · perfect · passive | somebody | yet | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary crust=Value |
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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