Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 169
You promised you'd pay me to-day."
Who acts: You · What happens: promise, pay · To what, where: me · 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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pay | aux |
| 5 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pay | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pay | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | You | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pay | would | you | me | day | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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