Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 3, sentence 89
"Mother Friday, forgive me! pardon me, the guilty one!
Who acts: Mother · What happens: forgive, pardon · To what, where: doors
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 (Mother), 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 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgive | nsubj |
| 3 | Friday | Friday | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Mother | appos |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 5 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 forgive | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgive | punct |
| 8 | pardon | pardon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 forgive | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 pardon | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 12 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 one | amod |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgive | parataxis |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive in a quote | infinitive | Mother | doors = door | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pardon in a quote | infinitive | Mother not said here | doors = door | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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