Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 42
Your father has ordered me to build a crystal bridge in a single night, and I don't even know how to handle an axe."
Who acts: father, I · What happens: order, build, not know, handle · To what, where: me, crystal bridge, axe · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father, I), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | aux |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 build | mark |
| 7 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bridge | det |
| 9 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bridge | compound |
| 10 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 build | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 night | amod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 build | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 know | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 19 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 build | conj |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 handle | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 handle | mark |
| 24 | handle | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 know | ccomp |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 axe | det |
| 26 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 handle | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | present · perfect | Your father | me | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | build not said to happen | to-infinitive | Your father not said here | a crystal bridge | night | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bridge=Product | |||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | handle | to-infinitive | a axe | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
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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