Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 141
"My trusty servants, zealous friends, grind this my wheat!"
Who acts: trusty servants · What happens: grind · To what, where: this
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 (trusty servants), 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 | _ | 9 grind | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 servants | nmod:poss |
| 3 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 servants | amod |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grind | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friends | punct |
| 6 | zealous | zealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friends | amod |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 servants | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 servants | punct |
| 9 | grind | grind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 grind | obj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wheat | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grind | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 grind | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 grind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grind in a quote | present | My trusty servants and zealous friends | this | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent this=Beneficiary wheat=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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