Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 21
"Well, I'm going to offer a rouble taper to Prophet Elijah; he's been ever so good to me!
Who acts: Nicholas, Prophet · What happens: go, offer, be · To what, where: rouble taper, Prophet, Nicholas
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 (Nicholas, Prophet), 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 | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 going | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 5 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 offer | mark |
| 8 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 going | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 taper | det |
| 10 | rouble | rouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taper | compound |
| 11 | taper | taper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 offer | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Prophet | case |
| 13 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taper | nmod |
| 14 | Elijah | Elijah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Prophet | flat |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 good | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 good | cop |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 good | cop |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 good | advmod |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 good | advmod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 going | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 good | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | Nicholas St. = nicholas | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | offer in a quote | to-infinitive | Nicholas St. = nicholas not said here | a rouble taper | Prophet | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent taper=Theme to prophet=Goal | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Prophet | Nicholas St. = nicholas | ever | good property | 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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