Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 154
"Take the feast-day sarafan,"[236] cries Need from behind the stove; "and with the money you get for it buy a ham and take it to your brother's."
Who acts: you, 236 cries · What happens: take, need, get, buy · To what, where: day sarafan, stove, ham, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, 236 cries), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sarafan | det |
| 4 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 day | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 feast | punct |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sarafan | compound |
| 7 | sarafan | sarafan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 10 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 Need | punct |
| 11 | 236 | 236 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 cries | nummod |
| 12 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 236 | punct |
| 13 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Need | nsubj |
| 14 | Need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | parataxis |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 stove | case |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 18 stove | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stove | det |
| 18 | stove | stove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Need | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 get | cc |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 money | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 money | det |
| 24 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obl |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 get | nsubj |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Take | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 get | obl |
| 29 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 get | xcomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 ham | det |
| 31 | ham | ham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 buy | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 take | cc |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 buy | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 brother | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 brother | nmod:poss |
| 37 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obl |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 brother | case |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the day sarafan | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent sarafan=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | need | present | 236 cries | the stove | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | present | you | with the money; for money | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | buy in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a ham | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ham=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | ham | your brother | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to brother=Destination |
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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