Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 159
"Follow me, I'll let you choose a lovely bride for yourself."
Who acts: you, old man · What happens: follow, let, choose · To what, where: old man, you, lovely 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, old 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
| 2 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Follow | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 let | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 let | nsubj |
| 6 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 let | aux |
| 7 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Follow | conj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 let | obj |
| 9 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 let | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bride | det |
| 11 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bride | amod |
| 12 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 choose | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 yourself | case |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 choose | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the old man = man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | future | the old man = man | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | choose in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a lovely bride | for yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bride=Theme for yourself=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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