Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 56
"Go to the King," they say, "he will give you red boots, a red caftan, and a red shirt."
Who acts: you, runners, King · What happens: go, say, give · To what, where: red boots, you · 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, runners, King), 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 | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 King | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 say | ccomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 boots | amod |
| 17 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caftan | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 caftan | det |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 caftan | amod |
| 21 | caftan | caftan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 boots | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 shirt | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shirt | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 shirt | det |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 shirt | amod |
| 26 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | runners = runner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | King | red boots and a red caftan | you | a red shirt obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient boot=Theme |
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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