Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Magic and Witchcraft., part 8, sentence 172

[333] Vanya and Vanyusha are diminutives of Ivan (John), answering to our Johnny; Vanka is another, more like our Jack.

What happens: be, answer · To what, where: Vanya diminutives, Johnny

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Magic and Witchcraft., part 8. 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	[	[	PUNCT	_	2 333	punct
2	333	333	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 333	punct
4	Vanya	Vanya	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 diminutives	compound
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Vanyusha	cc
6	Vanyusha	Vanyusha	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Vanya	conj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 diminutives	cop
8	diminutives	diminutive	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 333	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Ivan	case
10	Ivan	Ivan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 diminutives	appos
11	(	(	PUNCT	_	12 John	punct
12	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Ivan	appos
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	12 John	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 answering	punct
15	answering	answer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 Ivan	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Johnny	case
17	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 Johnny	nmod:poss
18	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 answering	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 Jack	punct
20	Vanka	Vanka	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Jack	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 another	cop
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 Vanka	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Jack	punct
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 Jack	advmod
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 Jack	case
26	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 Jack	nmod:poss
27	Jack	Jack	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 333	nmod:unmarked
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 333	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Vanya diminutives					tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	gerund			our Johnny				vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to johnny=Co-Agent

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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