Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 163
"What good would a lot do me, your Majesty? if I want some more afterwards, you'll give it me."
Who acts: king, you · What happens: do, want, give · To what, where: lot, king, more, Majesty
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, 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 (king, you), 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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 What | amod |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lot | det |
| 6 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | parataxis |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Majesty | punct |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 want | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 want | nsubj |
| 15 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | advcl |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 more | det |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 want | obj |
| 18 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 want | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 give | obj |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | would | a lot | the king = king | your Majesty obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the king = king | some more | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | future | you | Majesty | the king = king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient it=Theme |
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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