Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 117
"Here's a comb for you and a towel," said the Cat; "take them, and be off.
Who acts: comb, Cat · What happens: be, say, take, be off · To what, where: pieces · 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: who acts (comb, Cat), 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 | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 said | parataxis |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 comb | det |
| 5 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 comb | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 towel | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 towel | det |
| 10 | towel | towel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Cat | det |
| 15 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 be | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 be | cc |
| 22 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 take | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 be | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | a comb for you | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Cat | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | infinitive | pieces = piece | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be off in a quote | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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