Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 7
We'll buy you red boots, and a red caftan, and a red shirt."
Who acts: We · What happens: buy · To what, where: red boots, you
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 buy | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 buy | aux |
| 3 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 buy | iobj |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 boots | amod |
| 6 | boots | boot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 buy | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 caftan | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 caftan | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 caftan | det |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 caftan | amod |
| 11 | caftan | caftan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 boots | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shirt | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 shirt | cc |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shirt | det |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shirt | amod |
| 16 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 buy | parataxis |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | future | We | red boots and a red caftan | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary 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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