Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 12, sentence 51
"My pins give me light enough," said the one who was making lace. "
Who acts: pins, one · What happens: give, say, make · To what, where: me, lace · 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 (pins, one), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 pins | nmod:poss |
| 3 | pins | pin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | nsubj |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 give | xcomp |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 6 light | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 making | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 making | aux |
| 15 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | lace | lace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 making | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | My pins | me | light property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | past · progressive | the one | lace | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Product |
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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