Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 62
I am thy wife; let us go and seek a place where we may live."
Who acts: I, us, we · What happens: be, let, go, seek, live · To what, where: wife, us, place
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 (I, us, we), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wife | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wife | cop |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 wife | parataxis |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 seek | cc |
| 10 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seek | obj |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 live | advmod |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 live | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 live | aux |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | thy wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | a place | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||||
| 5 | live | may | we | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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