Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 120
"Send your tongue through the twelve doors and take him."
Who acts: you · What happens: send, take · To what, where: tongue, twelve doors, IVAN
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 2 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Send | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 doors | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 doors | det |
| 7 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 doors | nummod |
| 8 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Send | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Send | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | imperative | you not said here | your tongue | the twelve doors | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | IVAN | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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