Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 109
"'Why didn't I leave this crust for my children?'
Who acts: horse · What happens: leave · To what, where: crust
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horse), 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 | _ | 7 leave | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 did | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | nsubj |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 crust | det |
| 9 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 children | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 children | nmod:poss |
| 12 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 leave | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | past · do-support | horse | this crust | for my children | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent crust=Theme for child=Recipient |
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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