Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 78
"We'll see by-and-by whether much will fall to his share!" answered Elijah; "when I've burnt up all his land with lightning, and beaten it all flat with hail, then this Moujik of yours will know what's right, and will learn to keep Elijah's day holy."
Who acts: We, Elijah, Nicholas · What happens: see, fall, answer, burnt up, beat, know · To what, where: land, lightning, Moujik · 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 (We, Elijah, Nicholas), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 see | obl |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 by | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fall | cc |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 and | punct |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 fall | mark |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 much | case |
| 11 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fall | obl |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fall | aux |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 share | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 share | nmod:poss |
| 16 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fall | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 19 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 answered | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 burnt | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 burnt | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 burnt | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 burnt | nsubj |
| 25 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 burnt | aux |
| 26 | burnt | burnt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 answered | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 burnt | compound:prt |
| 28 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 land | det:predet |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 land | nmod:poss |
| 30 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 burnt | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 lightning | case |
| 32 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 land | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 beaten | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 beaten | cc |
| 35 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 burnt | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 beaten | obj |
| 37 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 flat | det |
| 38 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 beaten | xcomp |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 hail | case |
| 40 | hail | hail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 beaten | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Moujik | punct |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 Moujik | advmod |
| 43 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 Moujik | det |
| 44 | Moujik | Moujik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 know | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 yours | case |
| 46 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 know | obl |
| 47 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 know | aux |
| 48 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 burnt | conj |
| 49 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 51 right | nsubj |
| 50 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 right | cop |
| 51 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 know | ccomp |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 learn | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 learn | cc |
| 54 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 learn | aux |
| 55 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 right | conj |
| 56 | to | to | PART | _ | 57 keep | mark |
| 57 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 learn | xcomp |
| 58 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 60 day | nmod:poss |
| 59 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 58 Elijah | case |
| 60 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 keep | obj |
| 61 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 keep | xcomp |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 know | punct |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | future | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | future | We not said here | whether much; to Nicholas's share | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to share=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: express | past | Elijah | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | burnt up in a quote | present · perfect | Elijah | Nicholas's land | with lightning | tree rules | |||
| 5 | beat in a quote | participle | Elijah not said here | lightning | with hail; flat property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with hail=Instrument | |||
| 6 | know in a quote | future | Elijah not said here | this Moujik | of yours | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of your=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | is in a quote | present | right property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | learn in a quote | future | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 9 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | day | holy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | share in a quote | Nicholas | nom share «possession 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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