Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 131
Suppose I go and ask her advice," she said, and then went off to her grandmother's.
Who acts: I, matter · What happens: go, ask, say, go off · To what, where: advice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, matter), 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 | Suppose | suppose | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ask | cc |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 advice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 went | advmod |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 grandmother | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 grandmother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 grandmother | case |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | I not said here | matter's advice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | matter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go off in a quote | past | then | to matter's grandmother | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
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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