Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 107
"Writhe away or not as you please," thought the poor man, "but pay me my copeck!"
Who acts: you, poor man · What happens: writhe away, not think, pay · To what, where: copeck, poor man · Speech: someone speaks here
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, poor man), 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 | _ | 2 Writhe | punct |
| 2 | Writhe | writhe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 Writhe | advmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 thought | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 11 thought | discourse |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 please | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Writhe | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Writhe | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Writhe | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 pay | cc |
| 18 | pay | pay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Writhe | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 pay | iobj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 copeck | nmod:poss |
| 21 | copeck | copeck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pay | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Writhe | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Writhe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | writhe away in a quote | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not think speech: other | past | the poor man | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pay in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | my copeck | the poor man = man | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient copeck=Asset |
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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