Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 184
If you take good care of my mares, I'll give you a heroic steed.
Who acts: you, I, mares · What happens: take, give, care · To what, where: good care, heroic steed, you
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, mares), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 take | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | advcl |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 care | amod |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 mares | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mares | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 care | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | nsubj |
| 11 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | aux |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 steed | det |
| 15 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 steed | amod |
| 16 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take a condition, not said to happen | present | you | good care of my mares | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | future | I | a heroic steed | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient steed=Theme | |||
| 3 | care | my mares | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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