Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 78
And he ordered his son-in-law to see that everything was eaten. "
Who acts: man · What happens: order, see, eat · To what, where: law, everything · 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 (man), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 ordered | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 law | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 law | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 law | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 law | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 in | punct |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ordered | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 everything | det |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 eaten | aux:pass |
| 15 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 see | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | man | man's law | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | eat | past · passive | everything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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