Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 3, sentence 73
I see you now for the first time in my life, and never a stirrup did I ever take, so help me Heaven!"
Who acts: I, stirrup · What happens: see, not do, take, help · To what, where: you, me
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, stirrup), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 see | obj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 see | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 time | amod |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 life | nmod:poss |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 time | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 did | cc |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 did | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stirrup | det |
| 16 | stirrup | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | advcl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 take | advmod |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 did | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 help | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 help | advmod |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 see | conj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 help | obj |
| 25 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 help | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | you | now; time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | not do | past | a stirrup | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | present | I | ever | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | help | infinitive | I not said here | me | 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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