Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 6
"However can I undertake to make clothes of that sort; I work for quite common folks," says his master.
Who acts: master · What happens: undertake, make, work, say · To what, where: clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (master), 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 | _ | 5 undertake | punct |
| 2 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 undertake | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 undertake | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 undertake | nsubj |
| 5 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 says | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 undertake | xcomp |
| 8 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sort | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 sort | det |
| 11 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clothes | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 work | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 work | nsubj |
| 14 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 undertake | parataxis |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 folks | case |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 common | advmod |
| 17 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 folks | amod |
| 18 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 work | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 work | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 undertake | punct |
| 21 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 master | nmod:poss |
| 23 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 says | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake in a quote | can | King's master = master | however property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | King's master = master not said here | clothes of that sort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product | ||||
| 3 | work in a quote | present | King's master = master | for common folks | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for folk=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | King's master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/21/6/