Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 178
He waited till Sunday, and then told his wife to get dressed for church.
Who acts: husband · What happens: wait, tell, dress · To what, where: wife · 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 (husband), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | till | till | ADP | _ | 4 Sunday | case |
| 4 | Sunday | Sunday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 told | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 told | advmod |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 dressed | mark |
| 12 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dressed | aux:pass |
| 13 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 told | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 church | case |
| 15 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dressed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | husband | sunday | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | husband not said here | husband's wife | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | dress not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | for church | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
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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