Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 107
"If thou dost desire to become superior to thy brother," said his father, "speed swiftly by hidden ways, through dark untrodden forests, and if thou canst outstrip thy brother, he will have to be thy servant!"
Who acts: thou, father, Dnieper · What happens: do, become, say, outstrip, have, be · To what, where: desire, brother, servant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thou, father, Dnieper), 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 | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 dost | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 dost | nsubj |
| 4 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | advcl |
| 5 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dost | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 become | mark |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 desire | acl |
| 8 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 become | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 brother | case |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 superior | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dost | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dost | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 speed | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 speed | punct |
| 19 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 father | conj |
| 20 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 ways | case |
| 22 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ways | amod |
| 23 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 said | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 forests | punct |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 forests | case |
| 26 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forests | amod |
| 27 | untrodden | untrodden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 forests | amod |
| 28 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 ways | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 have | cc |
| 31 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 outstrip | mark |
| 32 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 outstrip | nsubj |
| 33 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 34 outstrip | aux |
| 34 | outstrip | outstrip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 have | advcl |
| 35 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 brother | nmod:poss |
| 36 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 outstrip | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 outstrip | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 have | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 have | aux |
| 40 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 servant | mark |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 servant | cop |
| 43 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 servant | nmod:poss |
| 44 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 have | xcomp |
| 45 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | thou | desire | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | become in a quote | to-infinitive | thou not said here | desire not said here | superior property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | Dnieper's father and speed | by hidden ways and dark untrodden forests; swiftly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | outstrip a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | thou | thy brother | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot brother=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have in a quote | future | Dnieper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | Dnieper not said here | thy servant | 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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