Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 133
"If that's the case," answers the old man, "there's no use in wearing out your legs.
Who acts: that, old man, use · What happens: be, answer, wear out · To what, where: case, legs · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (that, old man, use), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answers | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 case | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 case | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 case | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 case | det |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answers | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answers | punct |
| 9 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answers | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 's | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 's | punct |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 16 's | expl |
| 16 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answers | parataxis |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 use | det |
| 18 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 's | nsubj |
| 19 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 20 wearing | mark |
| 20 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 use | acl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 wearing | compound:prt |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 legs | nmod:poss |
| 23 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wearing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | that | the case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | the old man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | no use | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wear out in a quote | gerund | no use not said here | your legs | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent leg=Source |
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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