Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 68
"Well then if you know it, drive straight up to it."
Who acts: you · What happens: know, drive · To what, where: course
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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 drive | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 9 drive | discourse |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 drive | advmod |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 drive | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 9 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 up | advmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 9 drive | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 drive | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 drive | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | course | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | drive in a quote | imperative | you not said here | course | then | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to it=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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