Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 33
If they do get wet, you can dry them at the fire."
Who acts: legs, you · What happens: get, dry · To what, where: legs, fire
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 (legs, you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 get | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dry | advcl |
| 5 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 get | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 dry | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 dry | aux |
| 9 | dry | dry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dry | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fire | det |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dry | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dry | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 dry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | legs = leg | wet property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | dry | can | you | legs = leg | the fire | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
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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