Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 141
So they gave him their blessing, and let him go whithersoever it pleased him.
Who acts: eyes, man · What happens: give, let, go, bless · To what, where: blessing, man
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 (eyes, man), 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 gave | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 let | cc |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | whithersoever | whithersoever | ADV | _ | 14 pleased | advmod |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 go | ccomp |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | eyes = eye | eyes's blessing | man | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blessing=Theme | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | man not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bless | eyes = eye | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=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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