Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 7
It's a light you can take to your stepsisters.
Who acts: hold, you · What happens: be, take · To what, where: light, stepsisters
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 (hold, you), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 light | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 light | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 light | det |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 light | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 stepsisters | case |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stepsisters | nmod:poss |
| 10 | stepsisters | stepsister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 take | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 light | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | hold | a light | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | can | you | a light not said here | your stepsisters | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent light=Theme to stepsister=Destination |
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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