Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 140
And also beg that you may be buried at a crossway, at a spot where four roads meet."
Who acts: four roads · What happens: beg, bury, meet · To what, where: you, crossway
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 (four roads), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 beg | cc |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 beg | advmod |
| 3 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 buried | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 buried | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 buried | aux:pass |
| 8 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 beg | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 crossway | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 crossway | det |
| 11 | crossway | crossway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buried | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spot | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 spot | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spot | det |
| 15 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buried | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 meet | advmod |
| 17 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 roads | nummod |
| 18 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 meet | nsubj |
| 19 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spot | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | bury | may · passive | you | a crossway | at a spot | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at crossway=Destination | |||
| 3 | meet | present | four roads | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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