Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 5, sentence 72
"By the Pike's command, at my request, let a marble palace be built, and let it stand immediately opposite the King's palace!"
Who acts: you, palace, Pike, my · What happens: let, build, stand, command, request · To what, where: marble palace, palace · 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, palace, 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 | _ | 12 let | 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 | 12 let | obl |
| 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 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 palace | compound |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 built | aux:pass |
| 17 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 let | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 let | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 let | cc |
| 20 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 let | obj |
| 22 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 let | xcomp |
| 23 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 22 stand | advmod |
| 24 | opposite | opposite | ADP | _ | 28 palace | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 palace | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 28 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stand | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a marble palace | by the Pike's command and my request | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 2 | build in a quote | infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V» | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | palace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stand in a quote | infinitive | palace not said here | the King's palace | immediately property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite palace=Location | |||
| 5 | command in a quote | the Pike | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | 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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