Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 7
If I put you on one of my hands, and give it a slap with the other, there'll be a little wet left, that's all."
Who acts: I, you · What happens: put, give · To what, where: you, hand
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 (I, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 put | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 give | advcl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 put | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 give | cc |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 slap | det |
| 15 | slap | slap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 other | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 give | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 be | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 be | expl |
| 21 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 be | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 left | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 left | amod |
| 25 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 left | amod |
| 26 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 be | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 all | punct |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 all | nsubj |
| 29 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 all | cop |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 give | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put a condition, not said to happen | past | I | you | on one of my hands | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme on one=Destination | |||
| 2 | give | imperative | you not said here | hand | with the other; all obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient slap=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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