Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 141
Here, mother, put it well out of sight, and take a sharp knife, cut the thread, and pull the goatskin off me before anyone sees it."
Who acts: mother, anyone · What happens: put, take, cut, pull, see · To what, where: money, sight, sharp knife, thread, goatskin
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 (mother, anyone), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 mother | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 put | advmod |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 take | cc |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 put | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 knife | det |
| 15 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 knife | amod |
| 16 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 take | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thread | det |
| 20 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 pull | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pull | cc |
| 23 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 goatskin | det |
| 25 | goatskin | goatskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pull | obj |
| 26 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 pull | obl |
| 28 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 30 sees | mark |
| 29 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 30 sees | nsubj |
| 30 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 pull | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 sees | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | mother | money | sight | well property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme out sight=Destination | ||
| 2 | take | infinitive | mother not said here | a sharp knife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | mother not said here | the thread | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thread=Product | ||||
| 4 | pull | present | the goatskin | off me | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent goatskin=Theme off i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | see | present | anyone | money | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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