Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 10, sentence 96
"Mother has sent me to her sister, to ask for a needle and thread to make me a shift."
What happens: send, ask, make · To what, where: Mother, shift, stepmother
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sent | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sent | aux |
| 4 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ask | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 sister | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 ask | mark |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 needle | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 needle | det |
| 14 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ask | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thread | cc |
| 16 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 needle | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ask | advcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 shift | det |
| 21 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Mother | to girl's sister | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | for a needle and thread | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | a shift | the stepmother = stepmother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=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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