Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 5, sentence 53

"Yes I will; I shall go and pick it clean; but I won't give you a single currant!"

Who acts: proverb · What happens: go, pick, not give · To what, where: bush, single currant, you

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 (proverb), 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	_	8 go	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 go	discourse
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 will	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 Yes	acl:relcl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pick	cc
10	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pick	obj
12	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pick	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 give	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
16	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
17	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 give	advmod
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 go	conj
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 give	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 currant	det
21	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 currant	amod
22	currant	currant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	shall	proverb				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pick in a quote	infinitive	proverb not said here	bush		clean property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	not give in a quote	future	proverb	a single currant	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient currant=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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