Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 142
"'Thy Need,' answers some one or other.
What happens: answer · To what, where: Need
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: 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 | _ | 7 answers | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Need | punct |
| 3 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 Need | nmod:poss |
| 4 | Need | Need | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answers | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answers | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answers | punct |
| 7 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 answers | obj |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 other | cc |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | present | Thy Need | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality |
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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