Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 45
Wait a bit; we must treat her after her own fashion.
Who acts: you, we · What happens: wait, treat · To what, where: bit, Yaga
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, we), 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bit | det |
| 3 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 treat | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 treat | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 treat | aux |
| 7 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 treat | obj |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 fashion | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fashion | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fashion | amod |
| 12 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 treat | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | a bit | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | treat | must | we | Yaga | after Yaga's own fashion | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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