Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 119
Is there any way of tricking him now, and getting this pot of money out of him?"
Who acts: way · What happens: be, trick, get · To what, where: way, pot
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way), 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 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Is | expl |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Is | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 tricking | mark |
| 6 | tricking | trick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 way | acl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tricking | obj |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 tricking | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 getting | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 getting | cc |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 tricking | conj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 pot | det |
| 13 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 getting | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 money | case |
| 15 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pot | nmod |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 getting | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 getting | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | any way | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trick | gerund | any way not said here | way | now | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | get | gerund | any way not said here | this pot of money | out way | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Stimulus |
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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