Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 145

Please teach me how one ought to sit on a shovel."

Who acts: you, one · What happens: teach, sit · To what, where: me, shovel

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	Please	please	INTJ	_	2 teach	discourse
2	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 teach	obj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sit	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 sit	nsubj
6	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sit	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 sit	mark
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 teach	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shovel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 shovel	det
11	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 teach	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	imperative	you not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sit	ought	one			a shovel			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shovel=Location

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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