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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 father | det |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 went | advmod |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 other | cc |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 somewhere | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stepmother | det |
| 13 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 girl | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Go | punct |
| 20 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 aunt | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 23 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 sister | punct |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sister | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Go | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ask | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ask | cc |
| 29 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 Go | conj |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 ask | iobj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 needle | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 needle | det |
| 33 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ask | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 thread | cc |
| 35 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 needle | conj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 make | mark |
| 37 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 ask | advcl |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 make | obj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 shift | det |
| 40 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 make | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | past | the father | day | away, somewhere property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the stepmother | the girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | my sister | to your aunt | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aunt=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | stepmother | for a needle and thread | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | a shift | the girl = girl | vn 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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