Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 104
And so, methinks, the Priest may whistle for his money!"
Who acts: methinks · What happens: whistle
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, 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 (methinks), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 whistle | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 whistle | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 methinks | punct |
| 4 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 whistle | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Priest | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Priest | det |
| 7 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 methinks | nmod |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 whistle | aux |
| 9 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 money | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 money | nmod:poss |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whistle | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 whistle | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 whistle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | may | methinks the Priest | for Brother's money | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for money=Recipient |
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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