Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 10
Just then the lady sent messengers to the smithy, to ask whether the seigneur would soon be ready.
Who acts: lady, seigneur · What happens: send, ask, be · To what, where: messengers, smithy
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, seigneur), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 sent | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 sent | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lady | det |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sent | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 smithy | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 smithy | det |
| 9 | smithy | smithy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 ask | mark |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 sent | advcl |
| 13 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 ready | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seigneur | det |
| 15 | seigneur | seigneur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ready | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 ready | aux |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 ready | advmod |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ready | cop |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ask | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | the lady | messengers | the smithy | then | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to smithy=Destination | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the lady not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | would | the seigneur | ready, soon property | tree rules |
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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