Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 101
But I was not going to spoil my heavenly apparel."
Who acts: I · What happens: not go, spoil · To what, where: heavenly apparel
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 going | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 going | advmod |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 spoil | mark |
| 7 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 going | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 apparel | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 apparel | amod |
| 10 | apparel | apparel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoil | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · progressive | I | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spoil | to-infinitive | I not said here | my heavenly apparel | tree rules |
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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