Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 137
"Please to look for yourself, granny!" says Vasilissa.
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: look, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Vasilissa), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 look | discourse |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 look | mark |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 yourself | case |
| 6 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 granny | punct |
| 8 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 look | vocative |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 look | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Vasilissa | Vasilissa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | to-infinitive | for yourself; granny vocative | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for yourself=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express | present | Vasilissa | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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/pg22373/30/137/