Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 50
"Please to tell her to come to church to-morrow."
What happens: tell, come · To what, where: service, church · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 tell | discourse |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 tell | mark |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 come | mark |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 church | case |
| 9 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 morrow | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | service | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | church | to morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to church=Initial_Location to morrow=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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