Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 39, sentence 91
So the mistress went on listening, and at last interrupted: “What sort of a tale is this?
Who acts: mistress, sort · What happens: go, interrupt, be, sort · To what, where: listening, last, this, tale
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mistress, sort), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mistress | det |
| 3 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 listening | case |
| 6 | listening | listening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 interrupted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 interrupted | cc |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 last | case |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 interrupted | obl |
| 11 | interrupted | interrupt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 went | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 this | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 this | punct |
| 14 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 15 sort | det |
| 15 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 this | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 tale | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tale | det |
| 18 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sort | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 this | cop |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 went | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the mistress | listening | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on listening=Location | ||||
| 2 | interrupt | participle | the mistress not said here | last | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | what sort of a tale | this | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sort in a quote | a tale | 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: «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Project Gutenberg book 62509 (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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