Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 89
I am going to plunge into the sea, but do you fly over to the other side and as soon as you reach the opposite shore, give a croak."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: go, plunge, fly over, reach, give · To what, where: sea, opposite shore, croak
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 plunge | mark |
| 5 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 sea | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sea | det |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plunge | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fly | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 fly | cc |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fly | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 fly | nsubj |
| 13 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | parataxis |
| 14 | over | over | ADV | _ | 13 fly | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 side | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 side | amod |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fly | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 give | cc |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 soon | advmod |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 give | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 reach | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 reach | nsubj |
| 24 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 give | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shore | det |
| 26 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shore | amod |
| 27 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reach | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reach | punct |
| 29 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fly | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 croak | det |
| 31 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 give | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | plunge | to-infinitive | I not said here | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | fly over | present · do-support | you | to the other side result; over property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result | ||||
| 4 | reach | present | you | the opposite shore | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | infinitive | you not said here | a croak | soon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent croak=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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