Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 27
I return to you the fifty thousand roubles for which, when I borrowed them from you, I gave the life-giving cross as a surety."
Who acts: I · What happens: return, borrow, give · To what, where: thousand roubles, you, roubles, giving cross
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 (I), 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 | 2 return | nsubj |
| 2 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 return | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roubles | det |
| 6 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 thousand | compound |
| 7 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 roubles | nummod |
| 8 | roubles | rouble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 return | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 roubles | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 borrowed | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 borrowed | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 borrowed | nsubj |
| 14 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 return | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 borrowed | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 borrowed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 borrowed | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cross | det |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 giving | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 life | punct |
| 24 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 cross | amod |
| 25 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 surety | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 surety | det |
| 28 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 return | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | I | the thousand roubles | you | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rouble=Theme to you=Destination | |||
| 2 | borrow | past | I | roubles = rouble | from you | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from you=Source | |||
| 3 | give | past | I | the giving cross | as a surety | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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