Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 129
Only, if you wish to make me a present, give me that sorry jade which you use for carrying wood and water."
Who acts: you · What happens: wish, make, give, use, carry · To what, where: present, me, sorry jade, 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), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 wish | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Only | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 wish | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 5 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | xcomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 present | det |
| 10 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 jade | mark |
| 15 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 jade | amod |
| 16 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 use | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 use | nsubj |
| 19 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 jade | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 carrying | mark |
| 21 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 use | advcl |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carrying | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 water | cc |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wood | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | you | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a present | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary present=Product | |||
| 3 | give | infinitive | you not said here | sorry jade | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient jade=Theme | |||
| 4 | use | present | you | sorry jade | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||||
| 5 | carry | gerund | you not said here | wood and water | vn carry-11.4 «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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