Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 5, sentence 68
And look here, old greybeard! drive straight along the road at first, and then turn off from the road to the right, you know, into the forest--right up to the big pine that stands on the hill, and there hand Marfa over to Morozko (Frost)."
Who acts: you, old greybeard, big pine · What happens: look, drive, turn off, know, stand · To what, where: old greybeard, road, hill
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 (you, old greybeard, big pine), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 look | cc |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 look | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 greybeard | punct |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 greybeard | amod |
| 6 | greybeard | greybeard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 look | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 drive | punct |
| 8 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 greybeard | acl |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 road | advmod |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drive | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 first | case |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 drive | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 turn | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turn | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 turn | advmod |
| 18 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 turn | compound:prt |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 road | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 road | det |
| 22 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turn | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 right | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 right | det |
| 25 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turn | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 know | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 know | nsubj |
| 28 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 look | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 forest | punct |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 forest | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 forest | det |
| 32 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 know | ccomp |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 39 pine | punct |
| 34 | right | right | ADV | _ | 39 pine | advmod |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 pine | case |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 pine | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 pine | det |
| 38 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 pine | amod |
| 39 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 forest | appos |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 stands | nsubj |
| 41 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 pine | acl:relcl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 hill | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 hill | det |
| 44 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 stands | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 over | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 over | cc |
| 47 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 48 hand | nmod:poss |
| 48 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 over | nsubj |
| 49 | Marfa | Marfa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 hand | appos |
| 50 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 look | parataxis |
| 51 | to | to | ADP | _ | 52 Morozko | case |
| 52 | Morozko | Morozko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 over | obl |
| 53 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 54 Frost | punct |
| 54 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 Morozko | appos |
| 55 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 54 Frost | punct |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
| 57 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | old greybeard | here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | drive | infinitive | old greybeard not said here | the road | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent road=Theme at first=Destination | ||||
| 3 | turn off | infinitive | you not said here | the road | then | to the right | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||
| 4 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | stand | present | the big pine | the hill | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |
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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