Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 114
So at last he persuaded her, and she let him go away to find out about his home.
Who acts: Ivan, Vertogor · What happens: persuade, let, go away, find out · To what, where: Vertogor, last, Ivan
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ivan, Vertogor), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 persuaded | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 persuaded | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 persuaded | nsubj |
| 5 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 persuaded | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | nsubj |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 persuaded | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 go | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 go | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 find | compound:prt |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 home | nmod:poss |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 persuaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | past | Ivan | Vertogor | last | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Vertogor | Ivan | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go away | infinitive | Ivan not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find out | to-infinitive | Ivan not said here | about Ivan's home | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about home=Topic |
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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