Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 6, sentence 9
But you take a good look and choose me.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, choose · To what, where: good look, me
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 take | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 look | det |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 look | amod |
| 6 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 choose | cc |
| 8 | choose | choose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 choose | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | you | a good look | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Theme | ||||
| 2 | choose | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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