Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 3, sentence 81
"Cut off the left skirt of my shroud, and take it with you.
What happens: cut off, take · To what, where: left skirt, SHROUD
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 | _ | 2 Cut | punct |
| 2 | Cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 skirt | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 skirt | det |
| 5 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skirt | amod |
| 6 | skirt | skirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Cut | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 shroud | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shroud | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skirt | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 take | cc |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Cut | advcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off in a quote | participle | the left skirt of my shroud | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector skirt=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | SHROUD | with you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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