Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 43
"Don't make any pancakes, wife, if I don't deserve them," she would cook a two-gallon pot full, and say,
Who acts: you, I, wife · What happens: not make, not deserve, cook, say · To what, where: pancakes, gallon pot · 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 (you, I, wife), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 pancakes | det |
| 6 | pancakes | pancake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wife | punct |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pancakes | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 deserve | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 deserve | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 deserve | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 deserve | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 deserve | advmod |
| 14 | deserve | deserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 make | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 deserve | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cook | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 cook | punct |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cook | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 cook | aux |
| 20 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 deserve | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pot | det |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 gallon | nummod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 two | punct |
| 24 | gallon | gallon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pot | compound |
| 25 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cook | obj |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pot | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 say | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 say | cc |
| 29 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | any pancakes and wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not deserve a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | I | pancakes = pancake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cook | would | wife | a gallon pot | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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