Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 109

"It was my brother put you there, but I came on purpose to let you out."

Who acts: account, merchant · What happens: be, come, let out · To what, where: purpose, you

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (account, merchant), 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	_	6 put	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brother	nmod:poss
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 put	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 put	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 came	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	advcl
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 purpose	case
14	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 came	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 let	mark
16	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 came	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 let	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	16 let	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	account		there	put property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	past	the merchant = merchant		purpose		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on purpose=Location
3	let out in a quote	to-infinitive	the merchant = merchant not said here	you			vn give-13.1-1 «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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