Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 6, sentence 76

He loaded his gun and was going to shoot, but the crow exclaimed, "Don't hurt me; I'll do you a good turn."

Who acts: Ivan, crow · What happens: load, go, shoot, exclaim, not hurt, do · To what, where: gun, crow, good turn, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ivan, crow), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loaded	nsubj
2	loaded	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 gun	nmod:poss
4	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 loaded	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 going	cc
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 loaded	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 shoot	mark
9	shoot	shoot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 going	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 exclaimed	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 exclaimed	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crow	det
13	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 exclaimed	nsubj
14	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 loaded	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hurt	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 hurt	punct
17	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 hurt	aux
18	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 hurt	advmod
19	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 exclaimed	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 hurt	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 do	nsubj
23	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 do	aux
24	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 loaded	parataxis
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 do	iobj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 turn	det
27	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 turn	amod
28	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 do	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	load	past	Ivan	Ivan's gun		tree rules
2	go	past · progressive	Ivan not said here			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	shoot	to-infinitive	Ivan not said here			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	exclaim speech: express	past	the crow			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	not hurt in a quote	infinitive · do-support	the crow not said here	the crow = crow		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient
6	do in a quote	future	the crow = crow	a good turn	you	tree rules

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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