Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 49
Your wife has got two petticoats: leave her one, but the other we must turn into drink."
Who acts: wife, other · What happens: get, leave, turn · To what, where: two petticoats, wife, drink
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 (wife, other), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wife | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 petticoats | nummod |
| 6 | petticoats | petticoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 leave | punct |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 got | parataxis |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 leave | obj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turn | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 turn | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 turn | nsubj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 turn | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 turn | aux |
| 17 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 leave | conj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 drink | case |
| 19 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turn | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | Your wife | two petticoats | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer petticoat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | wife | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme one=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | turn | must | the other | drink | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into drink=Trajectory |
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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