Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 10
He shall serve instead of a son to me."
Who acts: youth · What happens: serve · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 serve | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 serve | aux |
| 3 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 7 son | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 instead | fixed |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 serve | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 serve | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 serve | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | shall | youth | me | instead a son | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |
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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