Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 176
"Pray forgive me for scolding you," said she.
Who acts: Pray · What happens: forgive, scold, say · To what, where: Pray, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pray), 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 | _ | 3 forgive | punct |
| 2 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forgive | nsubj |
| 3 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 forgive | obj |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 scolding | mark |
| 6 | scolding | scold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 forgive | advcl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 scolding | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgive | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgive | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive in a quote | infinitive | Pray | Pray | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | scold in a quote | gerund | Pray not said here | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Pray | 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.
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