Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 57
Go to your neighbor, and ask him to lend you a cart and a pair of oxen."
Who acts: you · What happens: go, ask, lend · To what, where: neighbor, master, cart, 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 (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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 neighbor | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 4 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 ask | cc |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ask | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 lend | mark |
| 10 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ask | xcomp |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lend | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cart | det |
| 13 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lend | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pair | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pair | det |
| 16 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cart | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 oxen | case |
| 18 | oxen | oxen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pair | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | your neighbor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to neighbor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | master | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lend not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a cart and a pair of oxen | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cart=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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