Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 12
"Let those in the centre carry you," said the birds.
Who acts: those, birds · What happens: let, carry, say · To what, where: those, centre, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (those, birds), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 centre | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 centre | det |
| 6 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 those | nmod |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 carry | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 birds | det |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | those | the centre | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry in a quote | infinitive | those not said here | you | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the birds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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