Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 23
Say, for instance, 'By the Pike's command, at my request, go home, ye pails, and be set in your places.'"
Who acts: you, ye, Pike, my · What happens: say, go, pail, set, command, request · To what, where: instance, request, places · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ye, Pike, my), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 instance | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 instance | case |
| 4 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 command | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 command | punct |
| 7 | By | by | ADP | _ | 11 command | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pike | det |
| 9 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 command | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 Pike | case |
| 11 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 instance | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 request | punct |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 request | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 request | nmod:poss |
| 15 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | conj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 go | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pails | punct |
| 20 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 pails | nsubj |
| 21 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 go | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 set | cc |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 set | aux:pass |
| 25 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 places | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 places | nmod:poss |
| 28 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 set | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 30 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | instance and the Pike's command | my request | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | infinitive | you not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pail | ye | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | set | infinitive · passive | your places | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in place=Destination | |||||
| 5 | command | the Pike | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | request | my | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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