Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 101
"Dissolve, my son, into a wide and deep river.
Who acts: you · What happens: dissolve · To what, where: wide river
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. 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 Dissolve | punct |
| 2 | Dissolve | dissolve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dissolve | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 river | punct |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 river | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 river | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 deep | cc |
| 11 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wide | conj |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dissolve | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Dissolve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dissolve in a quote | imperative | you not said here | into a wide river result; my son vocative | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into river=Result |
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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