Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1, sentence 173
"Listen, wife! we're invited to a party to-morrow."
Who acts: you · What happens: listen, invite · To what, where: wife, we
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 1. 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wife | punct |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Listen | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 invited | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 invited | aux:pass |
| 8 | invited | invite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Listen | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 party | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 party | det |
| 11 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 invited | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 morrow | case |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 to | punct |
| 14 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 party | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | imperative | you not said here | wife | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | invite in a quote | present · passive | we | to a party to morrow | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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