Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collecti… / Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12 / 27

Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 27

I live in my father's house, but never know what pleasure is; my evil stepmother tries to drive me out of the white world; teach me how to keep alive, and what I ought to do."

Who acts: I, pleasure, evil stepmother · What happens: live, not know, be, try, drive, teach · To what, where: house, me, white world · 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 (I, pleasure, evil stepmother), 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

nsubjcasenmod:possnmod:posscaseoblpunctccadvmodparataxisccompnsubjcoppunctnmod:possamodnsubjconjmarkxcompobjcasecasedetamodoblpunctparataxisobjadvmodmarkxcompxcomppunctccconjnsubjacl:relclmarkxcomppunctpunctrootIPRONliveVERBinADPmyPRONfatherNOUN'sPARThouseNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJneverADVknowVERBwhatPRONpleasureNOUNisAUX;PUNCTmyPRONevilADJstepmotherNOUNtriesVERBtoPARTdriveVERBmePRONoutADPofADPtheDETwhiteADJworldNOUN;PUNCTteachVERBmePRONhowADVtoPARTkeepVERBaliveADJ,PUNCTandCCONJwhatPRONIPRONoughtAUXtoPARTdoVERB.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs2 livensubj
2liveliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ininADP_7 housecase
4mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 fathernmod:poss
5fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing7 housenmod:poss
6's'sPART_5 fathercase
7househouseNOUNNumber=Sing2 liveobl
8,,PUNCT_11 knowpunct
9butbutCCONJ_11 knowcc
10neverneverADVPronType=Neg11 knowadvmod
11knowknowVERBVerbForm=Inf2 liveparataxis
12whatwhatPRONPronType=Int11 knowccomp
13pleasurepleasureNOUNNumber=Sing12 whatnsubj
14isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin12 whatcop
15;;PUNCT_19 triespunct
16mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 stepmothernmod:poss
17evilevilADJDegree=Pos18 stepmotheramod
18stepmotherstepmotherNOUNNumber=Sing19 triesnsubj
19triestryVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 liveconj
20totoPART_21 drivemark
21drivedriveVERBVerbForm=Inf19 triesxcomp
22meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs21 driveobj
23outoutADP_27 worldcase
24ofofADP_27 worldcase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 worlddet
26whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos27 worldamod
27worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing21 driveobl
28;;PUNCT_29 teachpunct
29teachteachVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin2 liveparataxis
30meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs29 teachobj
31howhowADVPronType=Int33 keepadvmod
32totoPART_33 keepmark
33keepkeepVERBVerbForm=Inf29 teachxcomp
34alivealiveADJDegree=Pos33 keepxcomp
35,,PUNCT_37 whatpunct
36andandCCONJ_37 whatcc
37whatwhatPRONPronType=Rel29 teachconj
38IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs39 oughtnsubj
39oughtoughtAUXVerbForm=Fin37 whatacl:relcl
40totoPART_41 domark
41dodoVERBVerbForm=Inf39 oughtxcomp
42..PUNCT_2 livepunct
43""PUNCT_2 livepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1livepresentImy father's housevn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
2not knowinfinitivevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3is apresentpleasuretree rules
4trypresentmy evil stepmothervn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5drive not said to happento-infinitivemy evil stepmother not said heremethe white worldvn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out world=Trajectory
6teach speech: otherinfinitivemevn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
7keepto-infinitivealive propertyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
8doto-infinitivevn 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/30/27/