Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 64
So the peasant let him go free--at large in Holy Russia.
Who acts: peasant, demon · What happens: let, go · To what, where: demon
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 (peasant, demon), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peasant | det |
| 3 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 go | xcomp |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 large | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 large | case |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 free | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Russia | case |
| 12 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 13 Russia | compound |
| 13 | Russia | Russia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 large | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the peasant | demon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | demon not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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