Russian Folk-Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 19
“But the dress _is_ mine!” the master shrieked out.
Who acts: dress _, master · What happens: be, shriek out · To what, where: gentleman · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Folk-Tales» by A. N. Afanas'ev, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dress _, master), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 shrieked | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 mine | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 _ | det |
| 4 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 _ | compound |
| 5 | _ | _ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mine | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mine | cop |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 mine | punct |
| 8 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 shrieked | parataxis |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 mine | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mine | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 master | det |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shrieked | nsubj |
| 13 | shrieked | shriek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 shrieked | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 shrieked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the dress _ | gentleman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shriek out | past | the master | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: 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 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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