Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 36
"We won't let the younger marry before her elders."
Who acts: We · What happens: not let, marry
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 (We), 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 younger | det |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 9 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 elders | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 elders | nmod:poss |
| 11 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 marry | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let in a quote | future | We | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | before work's elders | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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