Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 10
Lastly he is commanded to visit the demon's brother and invite him to the wedding.
What happens: command, visit, invite · To what, where: help, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 4 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 commanded | aux:pass |
| 4 | commanded | command | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 visit | mark |
| 6 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 commanded | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 demon | det |
| 8 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 demon | case |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 visit | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 invite | cc |
| 12 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 visit | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 invite | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wedding | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wedding | det |
| 16 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 invite | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | present · passive | help | lastly property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | the demon's brother | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Co-Agent | |||||
| 3 | invite | infinitive | help | to the wedding | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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