Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 52
"Ask our elder brother; he's sitting in that cart there."
Who acts: elder brother, man · What happens: ask, sit · To what, where: elder brother, cart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder brother, man), 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 | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 2 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ask | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sitting | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sitting | aux |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Ask | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 cart | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 cart | det |
| 12 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 sitting | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | imperative | our elder brother = brother not said here | our elder brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | present · progressive | man | that cart; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cart=Location |
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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