Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 160
"I only want to ask you, granny, about something I saw.
Who acts: Vasilissa · What happens: want, ask, see · To what, where: granny, you
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 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 want | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 want | advmod |
| 4 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 want | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ask | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 granny | punct |
| 9 | granny | granny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 something | punct |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 something | case |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 granny | appos |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 something | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | Vasilissa | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Vasilissa not said here | granny | you | tree rules | |||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | Vasilissa | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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