Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 6, sentence 37
"I've sold it," answers the merchant; "There's your money, take it in full."
Who acts: merchant, money · What happens: sell, answer, be, take · To what, where: cat, full · 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 (merchant, money), 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 | _ | 4 sold | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sold | nsubj |
| 3 | 've | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sold | aux |
| 4 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 answers | csubj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sold | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sold | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sold | punct |
| 8 | answers | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 merchant | det |
| 10 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answers | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 's | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 's | punct |
| 13 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 's | expl |
| 14 | 's | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 take | advcl |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 money | nmod:poss |
| 16 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 's | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 take | punct |
| 18 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answers | ccomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 take | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 full | case |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 take | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answers | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell in a quote | present · perfect | the merchant = merchant | cat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | present | the merchant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | your money | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | cat | full | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in full=Location |
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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