Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 103
If you'll allow me, mistress, in return for my copeck I'll do him a last service--just give his mortal remains a wash."
Who acts: you, return, mortal · What happens: allow, do, give, remain · To what, where: mistress, me, wash
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, return, mortal), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 allow | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 allow | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 allow | aux |
| 4 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 give | advcl |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 allow | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mistress | punct |
| 7 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allow | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 return | case |
| 10 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | nsubj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 copeck | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 copeck | nmod:poss |
| 13 | copeck | copeck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 return | nmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 15 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 allow | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 do | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 service | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 service | amod |
| 20 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 do | obj |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 4 allow | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 give | advmod |
| 23 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mortal | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 remains | nsubj |
| 26 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 give | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 wash | det |
| 28 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 remains | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow a condition, not said to happen | future | you | mistress | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | do | future | return for my copeck | mistress | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remain | present | return's mortal | a wash | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wash=Attribute |
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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