Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 5, sentence 7
"Don't accept money for your dog, grandfather, but ask for me!"
Who acts: you · What happens: not accept, ask · To what, where: money
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), 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 | _ | 4 accept | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 accept | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 accept | advmod |
| 4 | accept | accept | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accept | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 dog | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dog | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accept | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grandfather | punct |
| 10 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dog | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 ask | cc |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 accept | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 accept | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 accept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not accept in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | money | for your dog and grandfather | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | for a young man = man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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