Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 35
Build me in one night a great crystal bridge, so that it shall be ready for use to-morrow.
Who acts: you, task · What happens: build, be · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, task), 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 | Build | build | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Build | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 night | nummod |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Build | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bridge | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bridge | amod |
| 8 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bridge | compound |
| 9 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Build | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ready | punct |
| 11 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 ready | mark |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 so | fixed |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ready | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 ready | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ready | cop |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Build | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 use | case |
| 18 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ready | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 morrow | case |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ready | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Build | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | imperative | you not said here | me | night | a great crystal bridge obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | ||
| 2 | is | shall | task | for use; to morrow; ready property | tree rules |
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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