Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 106

"Mammie, mammie, thus and thus, a snake got upon my shift, and says he, 'Marry me or I won't let you have your shift;' and I said, 'I will.'"

Who acts: Mammie, you, my, your · What happens: get, say, marry, not let, have, shift · To what, where: Mammie, you, shift · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mammie, you, my, your), 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	_	2 Mammie	punct
2	Mammie	Mammie	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mammie	punct
4	mammie	mammie	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mammie	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thus	punct
6	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 mammie	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 thus	cc
8	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 thus	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 snake	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	15 shift	case
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 shift	nmod:poss
15	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 says	cc
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 got	conj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 says	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Marry	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	22 Marry	punct
22	Marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 says	ccomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Marry	obj
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 let	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 let	nsubj
26	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 let	aux
27	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 let	advmod
28	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 Marry	conj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 let	obj
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shift	nmod:poss
32	shift	shift	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 said	cc
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 said	nsubj
37	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 got	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 will	punct
39	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 will	punct
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 will	nsubj
41	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 said	ccomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 will	punct
43	'	'	PUNCT	_	41 will	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	41 will	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past	Mammie		upon my shift	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	Mammie not said here	Mammie		tree rules
3	marry in a quote	infinitive		Mammie		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	not let in a quote	future	Mammie	you		tree rules
5	have in a quote	infinitive	you not said here	your shift		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shift=Patient
6	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Mammie			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	shift in a quote		my			nom shift «event transitive»: poss=agent
8	shift in a quote		your			nom shift «event transitive»: 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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