Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 55
They may hang me then without my knowing anything about it."
Who acts: spirits, my · What happens: hang, know · To what, where: me, anything
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 (spirits, my), 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 | 3 hang | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hang | aux |
| 3 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hang | obj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 hang | advmod |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 knowing | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 knowing | nsubj |
| 8 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hang | advcl |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 knowing | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 anything | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hang | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | may | spirits = spirit | me | then | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | my | anything | about bed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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