Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 63
"Try and get before him yourself," said the Lord.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: try, get, say · To what, where: yourself · 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 (Lord), 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 Try | punct |
| 2 | Try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 get | cc |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Try | conj |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 get | obl |
| 7 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 get | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Lord | det |
| 12 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | get in a quote | infinitive | yourself | before Desna | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg22373/38/63/