Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 117

We've opened a new business here; we turn old folks into young ones."

Who acts: we · What happens: open, turn · To what, where: We, old folks

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj:pass
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	aux
3	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 business	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 business	amod
6	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 opened	advmod
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 turn	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 turn	nsubj
10	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 folks	amod
12	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turn	obj
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 ones	case
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turn	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 turn	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	present · perfect · passive		We		here			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme business=Destination
2	turn	present	we	old folks				into young ones	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent folk=Theme into one=Trajectory

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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