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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 father | case |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 know | cc |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 know | advmod |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 live | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 know | ccomp |
| 13 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 what | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 tries | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stepmother | amod |
| 18 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tries | nsubj |
| 19 | tries | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 drive | mark |
| 21 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tries | xcomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 drive | obj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 world | det |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 world | amod |
| 27 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drive | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 teach | punct |
| 29 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | parataxis |
| 30 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 teach | obj |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 33 keep | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 keep | mark |
| 33 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 teach | xcomp |
| 34 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 keep | xcomp |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 what | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 what | cc |
| 37 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 teach | conj |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 ought | nsubj |
| 39 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 what | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 do | mark |
| 41 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 ought | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | I | my father's house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 2 | not know | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | pleasure | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | try | present | my evil stepmother | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | drive not said to happen | to-infinitive | my evil stepmother not said here | me | the white world | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme out world=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | teach speech: other | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | keep | to-infinitive | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | do | to-infinitive | 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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