Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 87
Don thought to himself, "If I dive right through the sea, I shall carry it away with me."
Who acts: Don · What happens: think, dive, carry away · To what, where: Shat, sea · 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 (Don), 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 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 himself | case |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 thought | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carry | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 carry | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 dive | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 dive | nsubj |
| 9 | dive | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 carry | advcl |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 13 sea | advmod |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 sea | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sea | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dive | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dive | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 carry | aux |
| 17 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | obj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 carry | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 me | case |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 carry | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Don | Shat | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dive a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Don | the sea | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry away in a quote | shall | Don | sea | with Don; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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