Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 159
When that happens, he must slip out of the room, and let Nikita take his place.
Who acts: that, Nikita · What happens: happen, slip out, let, take · To what, where: room, Nikita, place
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Nikita), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 happens | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 happens | nsubj |
| 3 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slip | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 happens | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 slip | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 slip | aux |
| 7 | slip | slip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 room | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 room | det |
| 11 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slip | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 slip | conj |
| 15 | Nikita | Nikita | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 place | nmod:poss |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 slip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | slip out | must | Nikita | the room | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent room=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Nikita not said here | Nikita | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | Nikita not said here | Nikita's place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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