Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 135
See now, I pitied thee in thy misfortune, and I showed thee the treasure, thinking thou wouldst take a little of it to pay for the funeral, but thou hast pillaged it utterly."
Who acts: you, I, thou · What happens: see, pity, show, think, take, pay · To what, where: thee, misfortune, treasure, little, thou · 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 (you, I, thou), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 See | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pitied | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pitied | nsubj |
| 5 | pitied | pity | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | conj |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 pitied | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 misfortune | case |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 misfortune | nmod:poss |
| 9 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pitied | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 showed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 showed | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 showed | nsubj |
| 13 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 See | parataxis |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 showed | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 treasure | det |
| 16 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 showed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinking | punct |
| 18 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 showed | advcl |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 take | nsubj |
| 20 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thinking | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 little | det |
| 23 | little | little | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 little | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 pay | mark |
| 27 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 take | advcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 funeral | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 funeral | det |
| 30 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pay | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pillaged | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 pillaged | cc |
| 33 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 pillaged | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 pillaged | aux |
| 35 | pillaged | pillage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 showed | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 pillaged | obj |
| 37 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 35 pillaged | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 39 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | pity | past | I | thee | thy misfortune | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | show | past | I | the treasure | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient treasure=Topic | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | I not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | would | thou | a little of little | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pay | to-infinitive | thou not said here | for the funeral | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for funeral=Theme | ||||
| 7 | pillage | present · perfect · passive | thou | utterly property | tree rules |
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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