Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 56
But anyone whose riddle I can guess, him I may put to death."
Who acts: anyone, I · What happens: guess, put · To what, where: palace
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone, I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 guess | cc |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 guess | nsubj |
| 3 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 4 riddle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 anyone | appos |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 guess | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 guess | aux |
| 7 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 him | punct |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 guess | obj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 put | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 put | aux |
| 12 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 guess | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 death | case |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 put | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 guess | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 guess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | can | anyone | palace | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put | may | I | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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