Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 67
"Do something to get us cast on shore!"
Who acts: you, something · What happens: do, get, cast · To what, where: something, us, shore
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, something), 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 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 Do | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 get | mark |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 something | acl |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 get | iobj |
| 7 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 get | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 shore | case |
| 9 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cast | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | something | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | something not said here | us | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cast in a quote | participle | something not said here | shore | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on shore=Destination |
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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