Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 109

"Ah, Soldier! there's a daughter of mine dead; come and read the psalter over her."

Who acts: daughter · What happens: be, come, read · To what, where: psalter

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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	_	4 Soldier	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 Soldier	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	Soldier	Soldier	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 's	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Soldier	punct
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 's	expl
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 daughter	det
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 mine	case
11	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 daughter	nmod
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 dead	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 read	cc
16	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 psalter	det
18	psalter	psalter	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 read	obj
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 read	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a daughter of mine		dead property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	read in a quote	infinitive		the psalter	over daughter	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent psalter=Topic

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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