Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 41

When her husband asked her to make pancakes, she would say: "You thief, you don't deserve a pancake!"

Who acts: husband, wife, You · What happens: ask, make, say, thief, not deserve · To what, where: wife, pancakes, pancake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, wife, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 asked	advmod
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 husband	nmod:poss
3	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	advcl
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 make	mark
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	xcomp
8	pancakes	pancake	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 asked	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 say	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
12	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 thief	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 thief	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 thief	nsubj
16	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 deserve	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 deserve	nsubj
19	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 deserve	aux
20	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 deserve	advmod
21	deserve	deserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 say	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pancake	det
23	pancake	pancake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 deserve	obj
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	21 deserve	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 deserve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	wife's husband		wife	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife's husband not said here	pancakes		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pancake=Product
3	say speech: express	would	wife			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	thief in a quote		You			tree rules
5	not deserve in a quote	present · do-support	you	a pancake		tree rules

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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