Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 75
The servants came to the maiden, and said, 'Get up! it's time to go for a drive!'
Who acts: servants, bench · What happens: come, say, get up, be, go · To what, where: maiden, time · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (servants, bench), 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 | 2 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 maiden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Get | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Get | punct |
| 12 | Get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 Get | compound:prt |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 time | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 time | nsubj |
| 16 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Get | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 time | acl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 drive | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 drive | det |
| 22 | drive | drive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 Get | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the servants | the maiden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to maiden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | get up | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | bench | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | for a drive | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for drive=Beneficiary |
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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