Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 147
I shall ask him to come and enjoy himself at my wedding.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: ask, come, enjoy, wed · To what, where: comrade, wedding
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 come | mark |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 enjoy | cc |
| 8 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 9 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 enjoy | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 wedding | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 enjoy | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | shall | I | comrade | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enjoy | infinitive | I not said here | comrade | my wedding | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | wed | my | nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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