Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 4, sentence 59
But if any one purchases it," says she, "don't take any money from him, but ask him to give you liquor enough to make you drunk."
Who acts: one, you · What happens: purchase, say, not take, ask, give, liquor · To what, where: piece, embroidery, money, youth, 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 (one, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 says | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 purchases | mark |
| 3 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purchases | nsubj |
| 5 | purchases | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 says | advcl |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 purchases | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 purchases | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 purchases | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | aux |
| 14 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 take | advmod |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 money | det |
| 17 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ask | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 ask | cc |
| 22 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 take | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ask | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 give | mark |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 ask | xcomp |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 liquor | nsubj |
| 27 | liquor | liquor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | ccomp |
| 28 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 27 liquor | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 make | mark |
| 30 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 liquor | advcl |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 make | obj |
| 32 | drunk | drunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 make | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 34 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase a condition, not said to happen | present | any one | piece | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | embroidery | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not take | infinitive · do-support | any money | from youth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent money=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | youth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | give not said to happen | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | liquor | present | you | enough property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | you | drunk property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
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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