Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 68
"By the Pike's command, at my request," said the fool, "cast this tub ashore and tear it open!"
Who acts: command, Pike, my · What happens: say, cast, tear, command, request · To what, where: fool, tub · 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 (command, 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 | _ | 6 command | 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 | 13 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 request | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 request | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 request | nmod:poss |
| 10 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 command | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 command | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 command | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fool | det |
| 15 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cast | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cast | punct |
| 18 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 tub | det |
| 20 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cast | obj |
| 21 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 18 cast | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 tear | cc |
| 23 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 cast | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tear | obj |
| 25 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 tear | xcomp |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 18 cast | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the Pike's command and my request | the fool | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cast in a quote | infinitive | this tub | ashore property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tub=Product | ||||
| 3 | tear in a quote | infinitive | tub | open property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | command in a quote | the Pike | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | 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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