Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 14, sentence 76
So go and ask your father for the best horse he has--as if you wanted a gallop--and then, if you want to be out of harm's way, ride away whithersoever your eyes guide you."
Who acts: you, horse, eyes · What happens: go, ask, have, want, be, ride away · To what, where: father, best horse, gallop, way, you
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, horse, eyes), 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 | _ | 2 go | advmod |
| 2 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ask | cc |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | conj |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 father | nmod:poss |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 horse | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 9 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 horse | amod |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 horse | acl:relcl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 wanted | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 wanted | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 wanted | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 wanted | nsubj |
| 17 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 gallop | det |
| 19 | gallop | gallop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wanted | obj |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 35 ride | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 ride | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 ride | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 then | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 want | mark |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 want | nsubj |
| 26 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 ride | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 way | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 way | cop |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 way | case |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 way | case |
| 31 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 way | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 harm | case |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 want | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 want | punct |
| 35 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 go | parataxis |
| 36 | away | away | ADV | _ | 35 ride | advmod |
| 37 | whithersoever | whithersoever | ADV | _ | 40 guide | advmod |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 39 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 guide | nsubj |
| 40 | guide | guide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 ride | advcl |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 guide | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | your father | for the best horse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | |||
| 3 | have | present | horse | the best horse not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | want | past | you | a gallop | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gallop=Theme | ||||
| 5 | want a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | harm's way | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | ride away | infinitive | then | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | guide | present | your eyes | you | whithersoever property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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