Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 126
"Bring a needle and thread, mother, and fasten up the skin all round, so that it mayn't slip off."
Who acts: you, skin · What happens: bring, fasten up, not slip off · To what, where: needle, skin
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 (you, skin), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 needle | det |
| 4 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thread | cc |
| 6 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needle | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 mother | punct |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 needle | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fasten | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fasten | cc |
| 11 | fasten | fasten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Bring | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 fasten | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 skin | det |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fasten | obj |
| 15 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 round | advmod |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 fasten | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 slip | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 slip | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 slip | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 slip | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 slip | aux |
| 22 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 slip | advmod |
| 23 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Bring | conj |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 slip | compound:prt |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a needle and thread and mother | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent needle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fasten up in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the skin | round property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | |||
| 3 | not slip off in a quote | may | skin | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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