Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 32
"By the Pike's command," he says, "at my request, drive, into the forest, O sledge!"
Who acts: FOOL, Pike, my · What happens: say, drive, command, request · To what, where: sledge, request · 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 (FOOL, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 6 command | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Pike | det |
| 4 | Pike | Pike | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 command | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Pike | case |
| 6 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 says | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 command | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 says | nsubj |
| 10 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 says | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 drive | 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 | 17 drive | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 request | punct |
| 17 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 says | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forest | punct |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drive | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sledge | punct |
| 23 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 24 sledge | discourse |
| 24 | sledge | sledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drive | obl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 drive | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 drive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | present | FOOL | by the Pike's command | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drive in a quote | infinitive | sledge | my request | into the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | command in a quote | the Pike | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | request in a quote | 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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