Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 4, sentence 82
"I pleased her then," says he, "when I appeared as a gay gallant; now let her fall in love with me in my plain caftan."
Who acts: Vanya, bride · What happens: say, appear, let, fall · To what, where: bride, love · 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 (Vanya, bride), 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 pleased | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | parataxis |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 then | nmod:poss |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pleased | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pleased | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 he | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 appeared | punct |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 appeared | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 appeared | nsubj |
| 14 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | ccomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 gallant | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gallant | det |
| 17 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gallant | amod |
| 18 | gallant | gallant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 appeared | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 let | punct |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 let | advmod |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 appeared | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 love | case |
| 25 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fall | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 fall | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 caftan | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 caftan | nmod:poss |
| 30 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 caftan | amod |
| 31 | caftan | caftan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fall | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | appear in a quote | past | Vanya | as a gay gallant | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | Vanya not said here | bride | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | fall in a quote | infinitive | bride not said here | love | with me; in my plain caftan | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
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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