Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 2, sentence 38
When you go to where the girls are to-morrow, take a ball of thread with you, make a noose in it, and, when you are going to see him off, throw it over one of his buttons, and quietly unroll the ball; then, by means of the thread, you will be able to find out where he lives."
Who acts: you, girls, Harkye · What happens: go, be, take, make, see off, throw · To what, where: ball, noose, Harkye · 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 (you, girls, Harkye), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 morrow | case |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 morrow | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 girls | det |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 morrow | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 morrow | cop |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 morrow | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ball | det |
| 15 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 thread | case |
| 17 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ball | nmod |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 take | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 make | punct |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 noose | det |
| 23 | noose | noose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 make | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 throw | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 throw | cc |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 going | punct |
| 29 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 going | advmod |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 going | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 going | aux |
| 32 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 throw | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 see | mark |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 going | xcomp |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 see | obj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 see | compound:prt |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 going | punct |
| 38 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 throw | obj |
| 40 | over | over | ADP | _ | 41 one | case |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 throw | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 buttons | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 buttons | nmod:poss |
| 44 | buttons | button | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 one | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 unroll | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 unroll | cc |
| 47 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 48 unroll | advmod |
| 48 | unroll | unroll | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 throw | parataxis |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 ball | det |
| 50 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 unroll | obj |
| 51 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 55 means | punct |
| 52 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 55 means | advmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 then | punct |
| 54 | by | by | ADP | _ | 55 means | case |
| 55 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | parataxis |
| 56 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 thread | case |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 thread | det |
| 58 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 means | obl |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 able | punct |
| 60 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 63 able | nsubj |
| 61 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 63 able | aux |
| 62 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 63 able | cop |
| 63 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 means | conj |
| 64 | to | to | PART | _ | 65 find | mark |
| 65 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 63 able | xcomp |
| 66 | out | out | ADP | _ | 65 find | compound:prt |
| 67 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 69 lives | advmod |
| 68 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 69 lives | nsubj |
| 69 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 65 find | ccomp |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 71 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the girls | to morrow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | imperative | you not said here | a ball of thread | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | infinitive | you not said here | a noose | noose | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noose=Product | |||
| 5 | go | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | see off | to-infinitive | you not said here | Harkye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | throw | infinitive | you not said here | ball | over one of Harkye's buttons | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over one=Destination | |||
| 8 | unroll | infinitive | the ball | quietly property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | ||||
| 9 | mean | present | then | of the thread | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | is | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | find out | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 12 | live | present | Harkye | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: 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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