Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 45
"If so, take off thy cross," he replied.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: take off, reply · To what, where: cross · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 so | mark |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 take | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 take | compound:prt |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 cross | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | parataxis |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off in a quote | imperative | you not said here | thy cross | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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