Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter II. MYTHOLOGICAL, part 8, sentence 77
"Well, my lord King! you have fed me two years; now, whether you like it or no, feed me for one year more.
Who acts: you · What happens: feed, like · To what, where: King, hand, more, skazka
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 | _ | 10 fed | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 fed | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 King | nmod:desc |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 King | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 fed | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fed | aux |
| 10 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 fed | obj |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fed | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 fed | punct |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 fed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 like | punct |
| 17 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 19 like | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 like | nsubj |
| 19 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fed | parataxis |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 like | obj |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 feed | cc |
| 22 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 feed | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 no | punct |
| 24 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 like | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 feed | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 year | nummod |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 feed | obl |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 feed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed in a quote | present · perfect · passive | King my lord | now; year | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | like in a quote | present | you | hand | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | more | skazka | year | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient more=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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