Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 55
I'll give you a pair of nice white fowls."
Who acts: I, pair · What happens: give, fowl · To what, where: pair, you
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 (I, pair), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | aux |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pair | det |
| 6 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 white | case |
| 8 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 white | amod |
| 9 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fowls | obl |
| 10 | fowls | fowl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pair | acl:relcl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | I | a pair | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pair=Theme | |||
| 2 | fowl | present | a pair not said here | of nice white | vn berry-13.7 «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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