Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 13, sentence 77
The second replies, "Because the brother his sister takes."
Who acts: brother · What happens: take
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 (brother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 replies | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 replies | amod |
| 3 | replies | reply | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 replies | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 takes | punct |
| 6 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 takes | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 brother | det |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 takes | nsubj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sister | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | conj |
| 11 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 replies | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 takes | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 takes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | present | the brother and first's sister | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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