Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 63
In a third interview the Gypsy asked him to leave behind his golden stirrup as a pledge.
Who acts: Gypsy · What happens: ask, leave · To what, where: saint, third interview, golden stirrup
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 (Gypsy), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 interview | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 interview | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 interview | amod |
| 4 | interview | interview | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Gypsy | det |
| 6 | Gypsy | Gypsy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 leave | mark |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | xcomp |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 stirrup | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 stirrup | nmod:poss |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stirrup | amod |
| 14 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 pledge | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pledge | det |
| 17 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Gypsy | saint | a third interview | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Gypsy not said here | Gypsy's golden stirrup | as a pledge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind stirrup=Location |
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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