Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 41
"Hail Prince!" says she, "whither does God send you? and is it of your free will or against your will?"
Who acts: Hail, Morevna · What happens: say, send, be · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hail, Morevna), 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 Hail | punct |
| 2 | Hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hail | appos |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hail | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 send | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 she | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 send | punct |
| 10 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 send | advmod |
| 11 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 send | aux |
| 12 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 send | nsubj |
| 13 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 send | iobj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 send | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 free | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 free | cop |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 free | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 free | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 free | nmod:poss |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 says | conj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 will | aux |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 will | cc |
| 24 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 will | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 will | nmod:poss |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 free | aux |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 free | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | present | Hail | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | present · do-support | Hail | you | whither property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Morevna | free property | tree rules |
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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