Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Voices At the Window, part 3, sentence 85
When the Muscovite saw her he said, "What sort of a little beast is this?
Who acts: Muscovite · What happens: see, say, be, sort · To what, where: mouse, this, little beast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Voices At the Window, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muscovite), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Muscovite | det |
| 3 | Muscovite | Muscovite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | advcl |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sort | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 sort | punct |
| 10 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 11 sort | det |
| 11 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 beast | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 beast | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beast | amod |
| 15 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sort | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 this | cop |
| 17 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 sort | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Muscovite | mouse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Muscovite | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sort in a quote | a little beast | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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