Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 122
"Well now, mind this," says the fair maiden; "the Devil will begin giving you silver and gold.
Who acts: fair maiden, Devil · What happens: mind, say, begin, give · To what, where: this, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fair maiden, Devil), 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 | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 mind | discourse |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Well | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mind | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mind | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maiden | amod |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 begin | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 begin | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Devil | det |
| 16 | Devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 begin | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 begin | aux |
| 18 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 19 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 begin | xcomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 giving | iobj |
| 21 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 giving | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gold | cc |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 silver | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind in a quote | infinitive | this | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the fair maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | future | the Devil | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | gerund | the Devil not said here | you | silver property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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