Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 127
And when the time came for Petrusha to be going homewards, "Come," said the Devil, "I will provide you with money and with a capital horse, so that you will speedily get home."
Who acts: time, Devil, you · What happens: come, go, say, provide, get · To what, where: homewards, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (time, Devil, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | advcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Petrusha | case |
| 7 | Petrusha | Petrusha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 11 | homewards | homeward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 going | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Come | punct |
| 14 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Devil | det |
| 19 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 provide | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 provide | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 provide | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 provide | aux |
| 24 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 provide | iobj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 money | case |
| 27 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 provide | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 horse | cc |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 horse | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 horse | det |
| 31 | capital | capital | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 horse | amod |
| 32 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 money | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 get | punct |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 39 get | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 get | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 get | aux |
| 38 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 39 get | advmod |
| 39 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 provide | conj |
| 40 | home | home | ADV | _ | 39 get | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the time | for Petrusha | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive · progressive | the time not said here | homewards | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location homeward=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | infinitive | the time not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the Devil | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | provide in a quote | future | the Devil = devil | you | with money and a capital horse | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with money=Theme | |||
| 6 | get in a quote | future | you | home, speedily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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