Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 9, sentence 84
"My Father!" begs the Prince again, "there's another old man of mine here, let him, too, drink your health."
Who acts: Father, old man · What happens: beg, be, let, drink · To what, where: Prince, health · 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, old 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Father | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 begs | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Father | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Father | punct |
| 6 | begs | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Prince | det |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 begs | obj |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 begs | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 's | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 's | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 's | expl |
| 13 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 begs | parataxis |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 man | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 's | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 mine | case |
| 18 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 man | nmod |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 's | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 begs | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 too | punct |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 let | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 drink | punct |
| 26 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 let | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 health | nmod:poss |
| 28 | health | health | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drink | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 begs | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 begs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | My Father | the Prince | again | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | another old man of mine | here; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | Prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | drink in a quote | infinitive | your health | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent health=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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