Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 127

I'd better go to my neighbor's instead of fetching the water."

Who acts: I · What happens: go, fetch · To what, where: neighbor, water

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 neighbor	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neighbor	nmod:poss
7	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	's	's	PART	_	7 neighbor	case
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	11 fetching	mark
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	fetching	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 go	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fetching	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	I			my neighbor		well property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to neighbor=Initial_Location
2	fetch	gerund	I not said here	the water					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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