Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 3
For they insist on having all their wedding-clothes made for them first, exactly like those which they used to have in the other world, and that without being measured for them.
Who acts: brides · What happens: insist, have, make, use, measure · To what, where: wedding clothes, other world
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brides), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 insist | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 insist | nsubj |
| 3 | insist | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 having | mark |
| 5 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 insist | advcl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 clothes | det:predet |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clothes | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 wedding | punct |
| 10 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 5 having | obj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 clothes | acl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | obl |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 made | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 those | punct |
| 16 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 18 those | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 those | case |
| 18 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 having | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 used | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 used | nsubj |
| 21 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 those | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 used | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 world | amod |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 measured | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 measured | cc |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 measured | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 33 measured | mark |
| 32 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 measured | aux:pass |
| 33 | measured | measure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 those | acl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 measured | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 insist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other | present | brides = bride | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | brides = bride not said here | brides's wedding clothes | like those | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | |||
| 3 | make | participle | brides's wedding clothes not said here | for brides = bride; first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for they=Asset | ||||
| 4 | use | past | brides = bride | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent which=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | brides = bride not said here | the other world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | measure | gerund · passive | for brides = bride | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
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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