Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 7
They determined on this; to keep awake on a certain night, and to spy out who it was that came to suckle the babe.
Who acts: They · What happens: determine, keep, spy out, be, suckle · To what, where: this, babe
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 (They), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 determined | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 determined | conj |
| 8 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 night | det |
| 11 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 night | amod |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spy | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 spy | mark |
| 16 | spy | spy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 keep | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 spy | compound:prt |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 came | nsubj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 came | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 came | cop |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 spy | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 suckle | mark |
| 24 | suckle | suckle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 came | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 babe | det |
| 26 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 suckle | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | They | this | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | They not said here | night | awake property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | spy out | to-infinitive | They not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | come property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | suckle | to-infinitive | the babe | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Recipient |
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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