Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 8, sentence 3
If I fall on my feet, good; if I don't, well, I must suffer all the same!"
Who acts: I · What happens: fall, not do, suffer · To what, where: feet, same
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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 fall | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 suffer | advcl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fall | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fall | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 suffer | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 suffer | advcl |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 do | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 15 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 19 suffer | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 well | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 suffer | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 suffer | aux |
| 19 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 same | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 same | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 suffer | obj |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 suffer | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 suffer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall a condition, not said to happen | present | I | my feet | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on foot=Location | ||||
| 2 | not do a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | suffer | must | I | all same | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer same=Stimulus |
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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