Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 67
"Don't shoot me, my lord King! better take me home with you and feed me for three years.
Who acts: you · What happens: not shoot, take, feed · To what, where: Eaglet
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 4 shoot | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 shoot | aux |
| 3 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 shoot | advmod |
| 4 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 shoot | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 King | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lord | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 King | nmod:desc |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 shoot | obl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 King | punct |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 King | amod |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 shoot | parataxis |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 take | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 feed | cc |
| 18 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 feed | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 21 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 years | nummod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 feed | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shoot in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | the Eaglet = eaglet | King my lord obl | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | the Eaglet = eaglet | with you; home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | feed in a quote | infinitive | the Eaglet = eaglet | year | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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