Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 12

"Good, I'll bring it; only each of you must spin me a distaff-ful."

Who acts: spinners, each · What happens: bring, spin · To what, where: picture, spinners

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spinners, each), 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	_	6 bring	punct
2	Good	good	INTJ	_	6 bring	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Good	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bring	nsubj
5	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bring	aux
6	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bring	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 spin	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 each	advmod
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 spin	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 each	nmod
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 spin	aux
14	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bring	conj
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 spin	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ful	det
17	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ful	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 distaff	punct
19	ful	ful	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spin	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 bring	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring in a quote	future	the spinners = spinner	picture					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	spin in a quote	must	each	the spinners = spinner					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent i=Theme ful=Result

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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