Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 4, sentence 56

"A single bucket of water will not quench my thirst; give me more!"

Who acts: single bucket, my · What happens: not quench, give, thirst · To what, where: thirst, more, throat

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 (single bucket, my), 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	_	9 quench	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bucket	det
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bucket	amod
4	bucket	bucket	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quench	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bucket	nmod
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 quench	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 quench	advmod
9	quench	quench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 thirst	nmod:poss
11	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 quench	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 quench	conj
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 give	obj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 quench	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 quench	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not quench in a quote	future	a single bucket of water	my thirst		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer
2	give in a quote	infinitive	a single bucket of water not said here	more	throat	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient more=Theme
3	thirst in a quote		my			nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=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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