Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 2, sentence 82
"Go into the stable and tell the grooms to bring forth the heroic steed; sit upon him and break him in; to-morrow I've got to ride him to the wedding."
Who acts: grooms, I · What happens: go, tell, bring, sit, break in, get · To what, where: stable, grooms, heroic steed, Ivan, wedding · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (grooms, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 stable | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stable | det |
| 5 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grooms | det |
| 9 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tell | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 bring | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 steed | det |
| 14 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 steed | amod |
| 15 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sit | punct |
| 17 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sit | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 break | cc |
| 21 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 sit | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 break | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 break | compound:prt |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 got | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 morrow | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 to | punct |
| 27 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 got | obl |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 got | nsubj |
| 29 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 got | aux |
| 30 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 sit | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 ride | mark |
| 32 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 got | xcomp |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 ride | obj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 wedding | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 wedding | det |
| 36 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ride | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | the grooms = groom not said here | the stable | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the grooms = groom not said here | the grooms | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent groom=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the heroic steed | forth property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent steed=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sit in a quote | infinitive | the grooms = groom not said here | upon Ivan | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon he=Location | ||||
| 5 | break in in a quote | infinitive | the grooms = groom not said here | Ivan | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient | ||||
| 6 | get in a quote | present · perfect | I | to morrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | ride in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | Ivan | the wedding | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to wedding=Trajectory |
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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