Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 123

Don't take any of it, but ask him to give you the very wretched horse which the evil spirits use for fetching wood and water.

Who acts: you, evil spirits · What happens: not take, ask, give, use, fetch · To what, where: any, devil, wretched horse, you, wood

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 (you, evil spirits), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 take	advmod
3	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 take	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 any	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ask	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 ask	cc
9	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ask	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 give	mark
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ask	xcomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 give	iobj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horse	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 wretched	advmod
16	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 horse	amod
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 give	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 use	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spirits	det
20	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spirits	compound
21	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 use	nsubj
22	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 horse	acl:relcl
23	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 fetching	mark
24	fetching	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 use	advcl
25	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fetching	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 water	cc
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wood	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not take	imperative · do-support	you not said here	any		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		devil	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the wretched horse	you	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient horse=Theme
4	use	present	the evil spirits	the wretched horse		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
5	fetch	gerund	the evil spirits not said here	wood and water		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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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