Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 18
"Buy two tapers, a big one and a little one, and do thus and thus with them."
Who acts: you · What happens: buy, do · To what, where: two tapers
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 (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 Buy | punct |
| 2 | Buy | buy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 tapers | nummod |
| 4 | tapers | taper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Buy | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 one | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 one | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 one | amod |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tapers | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 one | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Buy | conj |
| 16 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 do | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 thus | cc |
| 18 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 16 thus | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 do | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Buy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy in a quote | imperative | you not said here | two tapers | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taper=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | you not said here | with tapers = taper; thus property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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