Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 51
Without me they'll be orphans left, and from door to door have to beg their bread and squabble with dogs."
Who acts: petticoats · What happens: be, leave, have, beg, squabble · To what, where: orphans, door, bread
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 (petticoats), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 2 me | case |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 orphans | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 orphans | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 orphans | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 orphans | cop |
| 6 | orphans | orphan | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 orphans | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 have | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 door | case |
| 13 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | nmod |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 orphans | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 beg | mark |
| 16 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 have | xcomp |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bread | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beg | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 squabble | cc |
| 20 | squabble | squabble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 beg | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 dogs | case |
| 22 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 squabble | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 orphans | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 orphans | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | future | petticoats = petticoat | orphans | without me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | participle | orphans not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | present | door to door | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | petticoats's bread | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent bread=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | squabble | present | with dogs | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with dog=Co-Agent |
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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