Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 11
To an enquiry about the way, he replies, "You have only to go along yonder path and say, 'Grant thy blessing, O Lord!' and you will come to where I am."
Who acts: beggar, You, thy · What happens: reply, have, go along, say, come, bless · To what, where: path, Grant blessing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (beggar, You, thy), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 enquiry | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 enquiry | det |
| 3 | enquiry | enquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replies | obl |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 way | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enquiry | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 enquiry | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 replies | nsubj |
| 9 | replies | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 12 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replies | conj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 have | xcomp |
| 17 | along | along | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 18 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 19 path | advmod |
| 19 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 say | cc |
| 21 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 blessing | punct |
| 23 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 blessing | punct |
| 24 | Grant | grant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 blessing | compound |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 26 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 say | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Lord | punct |
| 28 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 29 Lord | discourse |
| 29 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 blessing | appos |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 Lord | punct |
| 31 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 Lord | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 come | cc |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 come | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 come | aux |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 where | case |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 come | obl |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 am | nsubj |
| 39 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 where | advcl:relcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replies | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | present | beggar | to a enquiry about the way | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to enquiry=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | You | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go along in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | path | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | You not said here | thy Grant blessing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent blessing=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come in a quote | future | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to where=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | bless in a quote | thy | nom blessing «act 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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