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Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 91

One day the father went away somewhere or other, so the stepmother said to the girl, "Go to your aunt, my sister, and ask her for a needle and thread to make you a shift."

Who acts: father, stepmother · What happens: go away, say, go, ask, make · To what, where: girl, sister, stepmother, shift · 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 (father, stepmother), 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

nummodobl:unmarkeddetnsubjadvmodadvmodccconjpunctadvmoddetnsubjconjcasedetoblpunctpunctccompcasenmod:possoblpunctnmod:possoblpunctccconjiobjcasedetoblccconjmarkadvclobjdetobjpunctpunctrootOneNUMdayNOUNtheDETfatherNOUNwentVERBawayADVsomewhereADVorCCONJotherADJ,PUNCTsoADVtheDETstepmotherNOUNsaidVERBtoADPtheDETgirlNOUN,PUNCT"PUNCTGoVERBtoADPyourPRONauntNOUN,PUNCTmyPRONsisterNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaskVERBherPRONforADPaDETneedleNOUNandCCONJthreadNOUNtoPARTmakeVERByouPRONaDETshiftNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 daynummod
2daydayNOUNNumber=Sing5 wentobl:unmarked
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 fatherdet
4fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing5 wentnsubj
5wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6awayawayADV_5 wentadvmod
7somewheresomewhereADVPronType=Ind5 wentadvmod
8ororCCONJ_9 othercc
9otherotherADJDegree=Pos7 somewhereconj
10,,PUNCT_14 saidpunct
11sosoADV_14 saidadvmod
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 stepmotherdet
13stepmotherstepmotherNOUNNumber=Sing14 saidnsubj
14saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 wentconj
15totoADP_17 girlcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 girldet
17girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing14 saidobl
18,,PUNCT_20 Gopunct
19""PUNCT_20 Gopunct
20GogoVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin14 saidccomp
21totoADP_23 auntcase
22youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 auntnmod:poss
23auntauntNOUNNumber=Sing20 Goobl
24,,PUNCT_26 sisterpunct
25mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 sisternmod:poss
26sistersisterNOUNNumber=Sing20 Goobl
27,,PUNCT_29 askpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 askcc
29askaskVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin20 Goconj
30hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 askiobj
31forforADP_33 needlecase
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art33 needledet
33needleneedleNOUNNumber=Sing29 askobl
34andandCCONJ_35 threadcc
35threadthreadNOUNNumber=Sing33 needleconj
36totoPART_37 makemark
37makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf29 askadvcl
38youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs37 makeobj
39aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 shiftdet
40shiftshiftNOUNNumber=Sing37 makeobj
41..PUNCT_5 wentpunct
42""PUNCT_5 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1go awaypastthe fatherdayaway, somewhere propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2say speech: assertpastthe stepmotherthe girlvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient clause=Topic
3go in a quoteinfinitivemy sisterto your auntvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aunt=Initial_Location
4ask speech: ask in a quoteinfinitivestepmotherfor a needle and threadvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5make in a quoteto-infinitivea shiftthe girl = girlvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary shift=Product

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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