Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 55
"Which dost thou tell me to choose--riches, or a good wife?"
Who acts: thou · What happens: do, tell, choose · To what, where: good wife, orphan, riches · 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 (thou), 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 | _ | 3 dost | punct |
| 2 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 dost | nsubj |
| 3 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dost | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 choose | mark |
| 8 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tell | xcomp |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 riches | punct |
| 10 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 choose | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wife | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 wife | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wife | amod |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dost | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 dost | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | a good wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | thou | orphan | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | choose not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | thou not said here | riches | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=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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