Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 3, sentence 66
Then show us the fountain of healing and life-giving water!" said the heroes.
What happens: show, give, say · To what, where: fountain, us, heroes · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 show | advmod |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 show | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fountain | det |
| 5 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 show | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 healing | case |
| 7 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fountain | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 water | cc |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giving | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 life | punct |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 water | amod |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fountain | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 heroes | det |
| 17 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | infinitive | the fountain of healing and giving water | us | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient fountain=Topic | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the heroes | tree rules |
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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