Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 3, sentence 73
But if you'll wait a little, I'll earn some, and then I'll pay you with interest--on my word I'll pay you!"
Who acts: you, I, my · What happens: wait, earn, pay, word · To what, where: little, some, you, word
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, my), 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 | _ | 11 earn | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 wait | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wait | aux |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 earn | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 little | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wait | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 earn | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 earn | aux |
| 11 | earn | earn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 earn | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pay | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pay | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 pay | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 pay | nsubj |
| 17 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 pay | aux |
| 18 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 earn | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 pay | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 interest | case |
| 21 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pay | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 word | punct |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 word | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 word | nmod:poss |
| 25 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pay | obl |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 pay | nsubj |
| 27 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 pay | aux |
| 28 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 word | acl:relcl |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 pay | obj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 earn | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 earn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait a condition, not said to happen | future | you | a little | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | earn | future | I | some | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pay | future | I | you | my word | then | with interest | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset | |
| 4 | pay | future | I | you | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset | ||||
| 5 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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