Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 102
You're going to church, to pray to God, and yet you think about the Evil One; your foot stumbles and you throw the fault on the Devil!"
Who acts: You, foot · What happens: go, pray, think, stumble, throw · To what, where: church, God, fault
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, foot), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 church | case |
| 5 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pray | mark |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 God | case |
| 10 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pray | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 think | cc |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 think | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 think | nsubj |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pray | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 Evil | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Evil | det |
| 18 | Evil | Evil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 think | obl |
| 19 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 Evil | flat |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stumbles | punct |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 foot | nmod:poss |
| 22 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stumbles | nsubj |
| 23 | stumbles | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 throw | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 throw | nsubj |
| 26 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 stumbles | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fault | det |
| 28 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 throw | obj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 Devil | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Devil | det |
| 31 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 throw | obl |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | You | church | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pray | to-infinitive | God | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | you | yet | about the Evil | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about evil=Topic | |||
| 4 | stumble | present | your foot | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | throw | present | you | the fault | on the Devil | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent fault=Theme on devil=Destination |
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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