Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 25
"Take this, in Christ's name, poor fellow!"
Who acts: you, Christ · What happens: take, name · To what, where: this
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 (you, Christ), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 name | case |
| 6 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Christ | case |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | conj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | you not said here | this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument this=Theme name=Destination | ||||
| 2 | name in a quote | Christ | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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