Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 177
How is it you manage to do the work I set you to do?"
Who acts: it, I · What happens: be, do, set · To what, where: work, 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 (it, I), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 manage | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 manage | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 manage | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 manage | nsubj |
| 5 | manage | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 manage | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 work | det |
| 9 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 work | acl:relcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 set | xcomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 manage | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | it | manage property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | set | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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