Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 138
"Grandfather, the merchant bid me go and read the psalter another night.
Who acts: Grandfather · What happens: bid, go, read · To what, where: SOLDIER, 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 (Grandfather), 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 | _ | 2 Grandfather | punct |
| 2 | Grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grandfather | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 merchant | det |
| 5 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bid | nsubj |
| 6 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bid | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 bid | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 read | cc |
| 10 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 psalter | det |
| 12 | psalter | psalter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 read | obj |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 night | det |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 read | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bid in a quote | past | Grandfather | SOLDIER | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | infinitive | Grandfather not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | read in a quote | infinitive | Grandfather not said here | the psalter | night | 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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