Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 28

Such a lot of money in return for a mere cat! that would be too much of a good thing.

Who acts: that · What happens: be

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 (that), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 lot	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lot	det
3	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 money	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lot	nmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 return	case
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lot	nmod
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 cat	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cat	det
10	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cat	amod
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 much	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 much	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 much	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 much	cop
16	too	too	ADV	_	17 much	advmod
17	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lot	appos
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 thing	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 much	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	that					of a good thing; much property	tree rules

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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