Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 37
"Whoever feels inclined, let him go!" answered the brothers.
Who acts: Whoever, father, brothers · What happens: feel, let, go, answer · To what, where: father · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whoever, father, brothers), 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 | _ | 3 feels | punct |
| 2 | Whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 feels | nsubj |
| 3 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feels | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 feels | parataxis |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 let | xcomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 feels | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brothers | det |
| 13 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present | Whoever | inclined property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | father | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | father not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | answer speech: express | past | the brothers | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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