Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 128
Go to another village, old woman, perhaps you will get a bride for him there."
Who acts: you · What happens: go, get · To what, where: village, bride
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 (you), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 village | case |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 village | det |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 woman | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 woman | amod |
| 7 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 village | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bride | det |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obl |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 get | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | another village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | get | future | you | a bride | there | for business; perhaps property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bride=Theme for he=Beneficiary |
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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