Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 25
He merely sends him on an errand which leads to a fresh set of adventures, of which we need not now take notice.
Who acts: glance, errand, we · What happens: send, lead, not need, take · To what, where: patriarch, errand, notice
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (glance, errand, we), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sends | nsubj |
| 2 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 3 sends | advmod |
| 3 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sends | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 errand | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 errand | det |
| 7 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sends | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 leads | nsubj |
| 9 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 errand | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 set | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 set | det |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 set | amod |
| 13 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leads | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 adventures | case |
| 15 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 set | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 need | punct |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 need | obl |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 need | nsubj |
| 20 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 adventures | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 need | advmod |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 take | advmod |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 need | xcomp |
| 24 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 take | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | glance | patriarch | a errand | merely property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 2 | lead | present | a errand | to a fresh set of adventures | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to set=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not need | present | we | of adventures | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | infinitive | we not said here | notice | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
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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