Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 7, sentence 39
The merchant has asked me to be at his house to-night, to carry his daughter to the graveyard.
What happens: ask, be, carry · To what, where: merchant, me, house, daughter, graveyard
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 asked | aux |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 asked | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 house | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 house | cop |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 house | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carry | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 carry | mark |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 asked | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 graveyard | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 graveyard | det |
| 21 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carry | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present · perfect · passive | the merchant | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | merchant's house | night | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | to-infinitive | merchant's daughter | the graveyard | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme to graveyard=Destination |
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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