Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 38
In vain do they beg for their hearts, which he flings on the floor. "
Who acts: brothers · What happens: beg, fling · To what, where: vain, floor
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 vain | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beg | obl |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beg | aux |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beg | nsubj |
| 5 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hearts | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beg | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flings | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 flings | nsubj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flings | nsubj |
| 12 | flings | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beg | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flings | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beg | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present · do-support | brothers = brother | vain | for brothers's hearts | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for heart=Topic | |||
| 2 | fling | present | the floor | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on floor=Destination |
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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