Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 145

Then the youngest son, Prince Ivan, said to his father, "Father, give me your blessing, and let me go and look for my mother."

Who acts: youngest son, your · What happens: say, give, let, go, look, bless · To what, where: father, blessing, youngest son · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest son, your), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Ivan	punct
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Ivan	compound
7	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 son	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 son	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 father	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Father	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Father	punct
15	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 father	appos
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 give	punct
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 blessing	nmod:poss
20	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 look	cc
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 go	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 mother	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 mother	nmod:poss
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the youngest son		Son's father	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	give in a quote	infinitive	the youngest son not said here	your blessing	the youngest son = son			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient blessing=Theme
3	let in a quote	infinitive		the youngest son = son				tree rules
4	go in a quote	infinitive	the youngest son = son not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	look in a quote	infinitive	the youngest son = son not said here				for my mother	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for mother=Theme
6	bless in a quote		your					nom blessing «act transitive»: 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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