Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 1
"If you find favor in the eyes of my sister, I will not interfere with her wishes.
Who acts: you, I, her · What happens: find, not interfere, wish · To what, where: favor, eyes
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, her), 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 | _ | 16 interfere | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 interfere | advcl |
| 5 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eyes | det |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 favor | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sister | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sister | nmod:poss |
| 11 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 interfere | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 interfere | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 interfere | advmod |
| 16 | interfere | interfere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 wishes | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 interfere | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 interfere | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | favor | the eyes of my sister | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Topic | |||
| 2 | not interfere in a quote | future | I | with her wishes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | her = she | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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