Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 90
"Hard will it be for you to find her," replied the Raven, "Anyhow, leave your silver snuff-box with us.
Who acts: host, Raven · What happens: be, reply, leave · To what, where: silver snuff box · 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 (host, Raven), 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 Hard | punct |
| 2 | Hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 find | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 find | cop |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 find | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 find | mark |
| 9 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Hard | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 find | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hard | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hard | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Raven | det |
| 15 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leave | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 leave | punct |
| 18 | Anyhow | anyhow | INTJ | _ | 20 leave | discourse |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Anyhow | punct |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 replied | conj |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 box | nmod:poss |
| 22 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 box | amod |
| 23 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 box | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 snuff | punct |
| 25 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 us | case |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 leave | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | host | find property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Raven | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave in a quote | infinitive | the Raven not said here | your silver snuff box | with us | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent box=Recipient with we=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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