Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 111
"Now, dolly, feed, listen to my need!
Who acts: dolly, my · What happens: listen, need
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dolly, my), 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 | _ | 8 listen | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 listen | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | dolly | dolly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 listen | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feed | punct |
| 6 | feed | feed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dolly | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dolly | punct |
| 8 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 need | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 need | nmod:poss |
| 11 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 listen | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | dolly and feed | now | to my need | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to need=Theme | |||
| 2 | need in a quote | my | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/111/