Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 2
When they begin looking for the Diachok, you'll see that Simpleton will tell them everything.
Who acts: they, you, Simpleton · What happens: begin, look, see, tell · To what, where: everything, them · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (they, you, Simpleton), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 begin | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 begin | nsubj |
| 3 | begin | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | advcl |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 begin | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Diachok | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Diachok | det |
| 7 | Diachok | Diachok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 begin | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 tell | mark |
| 13 | Simpleton | Simpleton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tell | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | aux |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | ccomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 tell | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | present | they | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | they not said here | for the Diachok | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for diachok=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | future | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | future | Simpleton | everything | them = they | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient everything=Topic |
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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