Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 1, sentence 101
"Why now, if I wanted, I could give the whole world a jolt."
Who acts: Queen · What happens: want, give · To what, where: whole world
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 give | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 give | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 wanted | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 world | amod |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 jolt | det |
| 16 | jolt | jolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 give | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | Queen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | give in a quote | could | Queen | the whole world | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent world=Recipient jolt=Theme |
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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