Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 13
"Now I'll teach you to go peeping through my windows, and telling people what you saw!"
Who acts: I, you · What happens: teach, go, peep, tell, see · To what, where: you, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, you), 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 | _ | 5 teach | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 teach | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 teach | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 teach | aux |
| 5 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 teach | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 teach | xcomp |
| 9 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 go | xcomp |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 windows | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 windows | nmod:poss |
| 12 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 peeping | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 what | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 what | cc |
| 15 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 what | csubj |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 telling | iobj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 teach | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 teach | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other in a quote | future | I | you | now | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | peep in a quote | gerund | I not said here | through my windows | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through window=Theme | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert in a quote | gerund | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | see in a quote | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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