Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 58
Having worked a piece of embroidery, she tells him to take it to market. "
Who acts: embroidery · What happens: have, work, tell, take · To what, where: piece, youth, market · 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 (embroidery), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 piece | det |
| 4 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 worked | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 embroidery | case |
| 6 | embroidery | embroidery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 piece | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tells | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tells | nsubj |
| 9 | tells | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 worked | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 tells | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tells | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 market | case |
| 15 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worked | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | work | past | a piece of embroidery | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent piece=Material | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | embroidery | youth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | embroidery not said here | piece | market | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to market=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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