Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 6
The old man frightens his grandchildren with (stories about) Frost, and doesn't let them have their own way.
Who acts: old man, grandchildren · What happens: frighten, not let, have · To what, where: grandchildren, own way
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, grandchildren), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 frightens | nsubj |
| 4 | frightens | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 grandchildren | nmod:poss |
| 6 | grandchildren | grandchild | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frightens | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 stories | case |
| 8 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 9 stories | punct |
| 9 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 frightens | obl |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 Frost | case |
| 11 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 10 about | punct |
| 12 | Frost | frost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stories | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 let | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 15 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 let | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 let | advmod |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 frightens | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 way | amod |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 frightens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | present | the old man | man's grandchildren | with stories about Frost | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus grandchild=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | not let | present · do-support | grandchildren = grandchild | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | infinitive | grandchildren = grandchild not said here | grandchildren's own way | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
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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