Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7, sentence 74
I would that ye would far more often come to visit me! to quaff my wine and beer, and pay me tribute!"
Who acts: that · What happens: come, visit, quaff, pay · To what, where: me, wine, tribute
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter I. INTRODUCTORY, part 7. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 would | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 come | nsubj |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 come | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 often | advmod |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 come | advmod |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 would | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 visit | mark |
| 11 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | xcomp |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 visit | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 visit | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 quaff | mark |
| 15 | quaff | quaff | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 visit | advcl |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wine | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quaff | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 beer | cc |
| 19 | beer | beer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wine | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pay | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pay | cc |
| 22 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 visit | conj |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 pay | iobj |
| 24 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 pay | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 pay | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | would | that | often property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | visit | to-infinitive | that not said here | me | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | quaff | to-infinitive | that not said here | my wine and beer | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pay | infinitive | that not said here | tribute | me | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient tribute=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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