Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 121
See, I have spun thy linen and woven thy web: now let us bleach it and set it in the oven.
Who acts: you, I, us · What happens: see, spin, weave, let, bleach, set · To what, where: linen, web, us, oven · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, us), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 spun | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 spun | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spun | aux |
| 5 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 See | ccomp |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 linen | nmod:poss |
| 7 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spun | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 woven | cc |
| 9 | woven | weave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 spun | conj |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 web | nmod:poss |
| 11 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 woven | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 let | advmod |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | bleach | bleach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bleach | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 set | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 oven | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 oven | det |
| 23 | oven | oven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 set | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | spin | present · perfect | I | thy linen | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent linen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | weave | participle | I not said here | thy web | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Product | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | us | now | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bleach | infinitive | us not said here | web | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 6 | set | infinitive | web | the oven | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in oven=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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