Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4, sentence 11
We'll eat my loaves, and keep your biscuits for afterwards."
Who acts: We · What happens: eat, keep · To what, where: loaves, biscuits
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | aux |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 loaves | nmod:poss |
| 5 | loaves | loaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 keep | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 keep | cc |
| 8 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 eat | conj |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 biscuits | nmod:poss |
| 10 | biscuits | biscuit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 keep | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 afterwards | case |
| 12 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 8 keep | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | future | We | my loaves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | infinitive | We not said here | your biscuits | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent biscuit=Theme |
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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