Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 6, sentence 179
When you go to his house he'll try to force a lot of brandy on you.
Who acts: you, merchant · What happens: go, try, force · To what, where: house, lot
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 (you, merchant), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 try | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 try | nsubj |
| 8 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 try | aux |
| 9 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 force | mark |
| 11 | force | force | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 try | xcomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lot | det |
| 13 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 force | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 brandy | case |
| 15 | brandy | brandy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lot | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 force | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | you | merchant's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | try | future | merchant | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | force not said to happen | to-infinitive | merchant not said here | a lot of brandy | on you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Recipient |
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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