Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 120
So she went to a neighbor to ask for his daughter for her son: the neighbor refused.
Who acts: wife, neighbor · What happens: go, ask, refuse · To what, where: neighbor
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 (wife, neighbor), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 neighbor | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 neighbor | det |
| 6 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ask | mark |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 daughter | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obl |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 refused | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 neighbor | det |
| 17 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 refused | nsubj |
| 18 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | wife | a neighbor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to neighbor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | wife not said here | for son's daughter; for wife's son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | refuse | past | the neighbor | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent |
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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