Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 2, sentence 9
"Sing away, then, if you like; but I won't!"
Who acts: you · What happens: sing away, like
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 | _ | 2 Sing | punct |
| 2 | Sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Sing | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 then | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Sing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 like | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 like | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 like | nsubj |
| 9 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sing | parataxis |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 wo | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 wo | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wo | nsubj |
| 13 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sing | conj |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 wo | advmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sing | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing away speech: express in a quote | imperative | you not said here | then | away property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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