Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 127
"There lives my second sister; we'll go and pay her a visit."
Who acts: we · What happens: live, go, pay · To what, where: second sister, sister
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 lives | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lives | expl |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 sister | amod |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lives | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pay | cc |
| 12 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pay | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 visit | det |
| 15 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pay | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live in a quote | present | my second sister | there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme sister=Location | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | future | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pay in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | sister | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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