Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 173
I can't get to sleep, for I'm always thinking which bride to choose."
Who acts: I · What happens: not get, think, choose · To what, where: 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 2 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 get | advmod |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 sleep | case |
| 6 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thinking | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 thinking | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 thinking | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 thinking | aux |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 thinking | advmod |
| 12 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 get | advcl |
| 13 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 14 bride | det |
| 14 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thinking | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 choose | mark |
| 16 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bride | acl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | can | I | to sleep result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sleep=Result | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · progressive | I | which bride | always property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bride=Theme | |||
| 3 | choose | to-infinitive | I not said here | which bride not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: 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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