Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter III. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 97
"Wait a bit," said the stepmother's daughter, "I'll wash and dress, and whiten myself and rouge myself, and then I'll marry you."
Who acts: daughter · What happens: wait, say, wash, dress, whiten, rouge · To what, where: bit, daughter, you · 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 (daughter), 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 Wait | punct |
| 2 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bit | det |
| 4 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wait | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wait | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stepmother | det |
| 9 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 stepmother | case |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wash | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wash | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wash | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 wash | aux |
| 16 | wash | wash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dress | cc |
| 18 | dress | dress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wash | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 whiten | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 whiten | cc |
| 21 | whiten | whiten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wash | conj |
| 22 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 whiten | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rouge | cc |
| 24 | rouge | rouge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 whiten | conj |
| 25 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 rouge | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 marry | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 marry | cc |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 marry | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 marry | nsubj |
| 30 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 marry | aux |
| 31 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wash | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 marry | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 wash | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 wash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait in a quote | infinitive | a bit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the stepmother's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wash in a quote | future | the stepmother's daughter = daughter | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | dress in a quote | infinitive | the stepmother's daughter = daughter not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | whiten in a quote | infinitive | the stepmother's daughter = daughter not said here | the stepmother's daughter = daughter | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | ||||
| 6 | rouge in a quote | present | the stepmother's daughter = daughter not said here | the stepmother's daughter = daughter | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Patient | ||||
| 7 | marry in a quote | future | the stepmother's daughter = daughter | you | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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