Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 1, sentence 146
So the goats let her go, and give her a bag of nuts, apples, and other good things to take with her.
Who acts: goats, third · What happens: let, go, give, take · To what, where: third, bag
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goats, third), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 let | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goats | det |
| 3 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 give | cc |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bag | det |
| 12 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 give | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nuts | case |
| 14 | nuts | nut | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bag | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 apples | punct |
| 16 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 nuts | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 things | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 things | cc |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 things | amod |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 give | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 take | mark |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 things | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the goats | third | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | third not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | the goats not said here | a bag of nuts and apples | third | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient bag=Theme | |||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | the goats not said here | with third | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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