Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 40
"Since you've settled the question better than all of us, go and marry him yourself!"
Who acts: you · What happens: settle, go, marry · To what, where: question, king
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), 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 | _ | 5 settled | punct |
| 2 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 5 settled | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 settled | nsubj |
| 4 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 settled | aux |
| 5 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 go | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 question | det |
| 7 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 settled | obj |
| 8 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 settled | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 better | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 us | case |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 all | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 settled | punct |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 marry | cc |
| 16 | marry | marry | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 marry | obj |
| 18 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 marry | obj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle in a quote | present · perfect | you | the question | well property | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme question=Location | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | king | tree rules |
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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