Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 11

"Give me your cat; maybe it will catch mice on board, and amuse me."

Who acts: you, cat · What happens: give, catch, amuse · To what, where: cat, merchant, mice, board

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, cat), 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 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cat	nmod:poss
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Give	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 catch	punct
7	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	10 catch	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 catch	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	aux
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Give	conj
11	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 catch	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 board	case
13	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 catch	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 amuse	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 amuse	cc
16	amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 catch	conj
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 amuse	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your cat	the merchant = merchant			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient cat=Theme
2	catch in a quote	future	cat	mice		board	maybe property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme
3	amuse in a quote	infinitive	cat not said here	the merchant = merchant				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer

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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