Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 62
"Sit down to table and swallow your victuals!" replied the old woman.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: sit down, swallow, reply · To what, where: victuals · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 Sit | punct |
| 2 | Sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 Sit | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 table | case |
| 5 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Sit | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 swallow | cc |
| 7 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Sit | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 victuals | nmod:poss |
| 9 | victuals | victual | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swallow | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down in a quote | infinitive | to table; down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | swallow in a quote | infinitive | your victuals | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victual=Patient | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: express | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: 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.
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