Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 110
"Go to the Priest and buy back your crop--you won't lose anything by it."
Who acts: you · What happens: go, buy back, not lose · To what, where: Priest, crop, anything
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 (you), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Priest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Priest | det |
| 5 | Priest | Priest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Go | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 buy | cc |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 buy | advmod |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 crop | nmod:poss |
| 10 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buy | obj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 lose | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 lose | nsubj |
| 13 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 lose | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 lose | advmod |
| 15 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Go | conj |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 lose | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lose | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the Priest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to priest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | buy back in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | your crop | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not lose in a quote | future | you | anything | by crop | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality |
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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