Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11, sentence 22

"Ah, father!" she said, "mother sent me to aunt's to ask for a needle and thread to make me a shift.

Who acts: father, mother · What happens: say, send, ask, make · To what, where: father, aunt, shift · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, mother), 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 father	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 father	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 father	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	nsubj
12	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sent	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 aunt	case
15	aunt	aunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	obl
16	's	's	PART	_	15 aunt	case
17	to	to	PART	_	18 ask	mark
18	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 needle	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 needle	det
21	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ask	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 thread	cc
23	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 needle	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 make	mark
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ask	advcl
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 shift	det
28	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 make	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	send in a quote	past	mother	father	aunt		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to aunt=Destination
3	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive	mother not said here			for a needle and thread	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make in a quote	to-infinitive	mother not said here	a shift	father		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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