Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 15
Take me on your pinions, Bear me to my father and my mother, To the cottage of my father and my mother, There to eat, and drink, and live in comfort.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, bear, eat, live · To what, where: me, pinions, drink, comfort
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 (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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Take | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 pinions | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pinions | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pinions | pinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Bear | punct |
| 7 | Bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 Bear | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Bear | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 mother | cc |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cottage | punct |
| 16 | To | to | ADP | _ | 18 cottage | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 cottage | det |
| 18 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Bear | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 father | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cottage | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 mother | cc |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mother | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 father | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eat | punct |
| 26 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 eat | expl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Take | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 drink | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 drink | cc |
| 31 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eat | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 live | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 live | cc |
| 34 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 eat | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 comfort | case |
| 36 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 live | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | me | your pinions | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | bear | infinitive | you not said here | me | to my father and my mother | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | drink | there | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | live | present | comfort | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in comfort=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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