Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 210
I'll buy you an embroidered kerchief in return, the very best in the whole market."
Who acts: I · What happens: buy, embroider · To what, where: embroidered kerchief, you, return
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | aux |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 buy | iobj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kerchief | det |
| 6 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 kerchief | amod |
| 7 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 return | case |
| 9 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 best | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 best | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 best | advmod |
| 13 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 buy | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 market | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 market | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 market | amod |
| 17 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 best | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | future | I | a embroidered kerchief | you | return | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary kerchief=Theme | ||
| 2 | embroider | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «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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