Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 12
"Pray take it, master! only if you lose it, I shan't let you off cheap."
Who acts: Pray, you, merchant · What happens: take, lose, not let off · To what, where: cat, you
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 (Pray, you, merchant), 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 | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 2 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 master | punct |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 let | advmod |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 lose | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 lose | nsubj |
| 11 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 let | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lose | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lose | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 let | nsubj |
| 15 | sha | sha | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 let | aux |
| 16 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 let | advmod |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | parataxis |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 let | compound:prt |
| 20 | cheap | cheap | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 let | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | infinitive | Pray | cat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme master=Destination | ||||
| 2 | lose a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | cat | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not let off in a quote | the merchant = merchant | you | cheap property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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