Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 134

"Listen, old man," says the pope, "From me thou will not escape, although thou may'st pray, although thou may'st cross thyself; much better give me back my pot of money, otherwise I will make thee pay for it.

Who acts: pope, thou, thee · What happens: listen, say, not escape, pray, give back, make · To what, where: old man, pot, pope, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pope, thou, thee), 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	_	2 Listen	punct
2	Listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 man	punct
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Listen	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Listen	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 pope	det
10	pope	pope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 escape	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 escape	punct
13	From	from	ADP	_	14 me	case
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 escape	obl
15	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 escape	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 escape	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 escape	advmod
18	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 pray	punct
20	although	although	SCONJ	_	23 pray	mark
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 pray	nsubj
22	may'st	may'st	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pray	nsubj
23	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 escape	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 cross	punct
25	although	although	SCONJ	_	28 cross	mark
26	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	27 may'st	nsubj
27	may'st	may'	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 cross	advmod
28	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 escape	parataxis
29	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	28 cross	nsubj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 give	punct
31	much	much	ADV	_	32 better	advmod
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 give	csubj
33	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	parataxis
34	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 give	iobj
35	back	back	ADP	_	33 give	compound:prt
36	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 pot	nmod:poss
37	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 give	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 money	case
39	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 pot	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 make	punct
41	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	44 make	advmod
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 make	nsubj
43	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 make	aux
44	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 give	conj
45	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	44 make	obj
46	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 make	xcomp
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 it	case
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 pay	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	infinitive		old man			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the pope				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not escape in a quote	future	thou			from the pope = pope	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from i=Initial_Location
4	pray in a quote	infinitive	thou				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	give back in a quote	infinitive		my pot of money	the pope = pope		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient pot=Theme
6	make in a quote	future	the pope = pope	thee		otherwise property	tree rules
7	pay in a quote	infinitive	thee not said here			for may'st	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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