Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 7, sentence 98
"If you'll marry me, I'll give you back your shift."
Who acts: you, snake, your · What happens: marry, give back, shift · To what, where: snake, shift, you
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 (you, snake, 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 | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 marry | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 marry | aux |
| 5 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 marry | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 give | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 give | aux |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 marry | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | back | back | ADP | _ | 10 give | compound:prt |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shift | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | marry in a quote | future | you | the snake = snake | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give back in a quote | future | the snake = snake | your shift | you | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient shift=Theme | |||
| 3 | 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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