Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 52
"I've found a currant bush; don't pick it."
Who acts: proverb · What happens: find, not pick · To what, where: currant bush, bush
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proverb), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bush | det |
| 6 | currant | currant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bush | compound |
| 7 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 pick | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 pick | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 pick | advmod |
| 11 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | parataxis |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pick | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 pick | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 pick | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | present · perfect | proverb | a currant bush | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bush=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not pick in a quote | infinitive · do-support | bush | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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