Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 46
To-morrow we won't go to the chase, but we'll try to entice her and lay hands upon her!"
Who acts: we · What happens: not go, try, entice, lie · To what, where: morrow, Yaga, hands
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 (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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 morrow | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 5 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 6 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 go | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 chase | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chase | det |
| 10 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 try | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 try | cc |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 try | nsubj |
| 14 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 try | aux |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 go | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 entice | mark |
| 17 | entice | entice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 try | xcomp |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 entice | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lay | cc |
| 20 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 try | conj |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lay | obj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lay | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | future | we | morrow | to the chase | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location to chase=Destination | |||
| 2 | try | future | we | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | entice not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | Yaga | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | we not said here | hands | upon Yaga | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=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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